VacationSelector

Beijing or The Hague?

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

Your match

Beijing
53
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

BeijingThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 60 points.60
BeijingThe Hague
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km034
Coast distance145 km3 km
Water distance—3 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 1 points.1
BeijingThe Hague
Score6362
Museums within 10 km9546
Museums within 2 km of centre1526
Share of museums within 2 km %1657
Unesco sites within 50 km64
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 19 points.19
BeijingThe Hague
Score3554
Protected land share 50 km %38
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km143 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 21 points.21
BeijingThe Hague
Score7756
Tourist attractions within 2 km4110
Park area within 2 km143 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km127
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 4 points.4
BeijingThe Hague
Score5054
Notable places within 2 km6986
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing leads by 21 points.21
BeijingThe Hague
Score7958
Price level global4979.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Beijing leads by 12 points.12
BeijingThe Hague
Score6654
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months80
0255075100

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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Daytime high, °C
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Beijing
No coastline within reach
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingThe Hague
DublinDUB
10 h 25 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
11 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
9 h 10 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
1 h 55 m
€144-160
PKX · 45 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
8 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
ChengduTFU, CTU
2 h 25 m
€217-253
PKX · 45 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
BRU · 132 km
DohaDOH
7 h 55 m
€595-787
3 stops
PKX · 45 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 5 m
€1,020-1172
2 stops
PEK · 25 km
7 h 45 m
€458-478
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
21 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
12 h 10 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

MeasureBeijingThe Hague
Official languagePutonghuaDutch
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112 or 911
Elevation43 m1 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingThe Hague
City population21,893,095548,320
People per km²1,3345,589
Museums within 10 km8354
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km64
Distinct cuisines in the centre2977
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.