VacationSelector

Bath or The Hague?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bath
40
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Bath for countryside walking, a good share of protected land nearby and museums clustered in a small centre. Its window is July to September, when it stays drier than The Hague.

Choose The Hague if you want the sea 3km away, a much wider range of restaurants, more museums and more to see on foot.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BathThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 52 points.52
BathThe Hague
Score860
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km134
Coast distance29 km3 km
Water distance29 km3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 24 points.24
BathThe Hague
Score4670
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2643
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 15 points.15
BathThe Hague
Score4762
Museums within 10 km2046
Museums within 2 km of centre1426
Share of museums within 2 km %7057
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. The Hague leads by 10 points.10
BathThe Hague
Score3646
Drinking venues within 4 km320511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7556
Nightclubs within 4 km1119
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 10 points.10
BathThe Hague
Score4454
Protected land share 50 km %288
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9256
Park area within 2 km45 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 16 points.16
BathThe Hague
Score4056
Tourist attractions within 2 km1410
Park area within 2 km45 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 22 points.22
BathThe Hague
Score3254
Notable places within 2 km2586
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. The Hague leads by 4 points.4
BathThe Hague
Score5458
Price level global84.979.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Bath leads by 1 points.1
BathThe Hague
Score5554
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

Where they differ

Bath is the better base for leaving town: 28% of the land around it is protected against 8% around The Hague. Its museums sit tightly around the centre, and it has somewhat more tourist attractions there.

The Hague puts the sea 3km from its centre against 29km from Bath, with 34 beaches nearby against Bath's one. It has about three times as many restaurants near the centre and a wider range of kitchens, plus about three times as many notable places within walking distance.

Where they are alike

The weather is near identical. Both run daytime highs of about 7-21°C across the year, and neither gets a month at 40mm of rain or less, so rain is possible whenever you go.

Neither is a late-night city: bars and clubs are limited in both, and Bath's sit near the centre while about half of The Hague's do. Both also put green space and day trips within easy reach, countryside in one case, parks in the other.

Which traveller are you?

If your break is built around walking out into open country, Bath fits: 28% of the land around the city is protected, and its museums and attractions are close enough together to fill a wet afternoon on foot.

Families with young children are better served in The Hague: 7 theme parks within reach against Bath's 1, about three times as much park space near the centre, and the beach 3km away.

For a trip about eating and museums, The Hague again: about three times as many restaurants near the centre, a wider range of kitchens, and roughly twice as many museums, though Bath's are more tightly grouped.

What the numbers don't tell you

The Hague's beach advantage is about access, not swimming conditions. The sea never reaches 21°C in any month here, and the warmest water, 19°C in August, falls in one of the wettest months, near 84mm. A short walk to the beach and a comfortable swim are not the same thing.

No cost comparison is possible here. The dataset gives a daily budget for The Hague, €181, and none for Bath, so nothing on this page says which is the cheaper trip. The value figures rest on a different measure that both cities have, so do not read them as prices.

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Bath is the stronger pick from June to September. July and August reach 21°C with 61mm and 66mm of rain, less than The Hague sees then, and September holds 18°C with 54mm.

The Hague is the better bet in spring: April is its driest month at 42mm, warming to 13°C, and it edges ahead of Bath then. High summer works too, with the sea at its warmest of 19°C in August, though July and August are its wettest months, near 84mm.

Getting there

Flying fromBathThe Hague
DublinDUB
1 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
55 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 20 m
no fares
BHX · 126 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 30 m
€665-831
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
BridgetownBGI
8 h 25 m
no fares
CWL · 68 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBathThe Hague
Official languageEnglishDutch
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112 or 911
Elevation132 m1 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathThe Hague
City population94,092548,320
People per km²3,2455,589
Museums within 10 km1754
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre3877
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.