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The Forbidden City, Beijing
BeijingThe Forbidden City
The skyline reflected in the water, The Hague
The HagueThe skyline reflected in the water

Photos: Beijing by BI ravencrow, Pexels License; The Hague by Bráulio jardim, Pexels License.

Beijing or The Hague?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Beijing for

  • food and drink
  • prices
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Beijing’s own page.

Choose The Hague for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on The Hague’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Beijing 6, The Hague 38: The Hague leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Beijing 81, The Hague 48: Beijing leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Beijing 93, The Hague 66: Beijing leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Beijing 58, The Hague 38: Beijing leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Beijing 60, The Hague 52: Beijing leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Beijing 85, The Hague 86: The Hague leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Beijing 64, The Hague 72: The Hague leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Beijing 69, The Hague 78: The Hague leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. Beijing 72, The Hague 55: Beijing leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Beijing 68, The Hague 35: Beijing leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Beijing 68, The Hague 58: Beijing leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Beijing 55, The Hague 45: Beijing leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Beijing and The Hague.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Beijing
Best match
65match

Wins on food and drink and prices with your weighting.

The Hague
56match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Beijing in July

32 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
163 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

The Hague in July

21 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

The Hague has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

The Hague's sunshine is measured 60 km from the centre, at De Bilt.

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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
Elevation43 m1 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre104 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre53 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
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.