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The beach with its parasols and the boardwalk, Bethany Beach
Bethany BeachThe beach with its parasols and the boardwalk
The skyline reflected in the water, The Hague
The HagueThe skyline reflected in the water

Photos: Bethany Beach by Doug Olson, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; The Hague by Bráulio jardim, Pexels License.

Bethany Beach 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 Bethany Beach for

  • beaches

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

Choose The Hague for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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. Bethany Beach 72, The Hague 38: Bethany Beach leads by 34 points.
Food & drink. Bethany Beach 35, The Hague 48: The Hague leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Bethany Beach 10, The Hague 66: The Hague leads by 56 points.
Nightlife. Bethany Beach 12, The Hague 38: The Hague leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bethany Beach 48, The Hague 52: The Hague leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Bethany Beach 45, The Hague 86: The Hague leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Bethany Beach 66, The Hague 72: The Hague leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Bethany Beach 33, The Hague 78: The Hague leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. Bethany Beach 28, The Hague 55: The Hague leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Bethany Beach 30, The Hague 35: The Hague leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bethany Beach 14, The Hague 58: The Hague leads by 44 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bethany Beach 33, The Hague 45: The Hague leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bethany Beach and The Hague.

Your match

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

Bethany Beach
36match

Wins on beaches with your weighting.

The Hague
Best match
56match

Wins on culture and sights 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.

Bethany Beach in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
95 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
23 °Csea
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

Bethany Beach's temperatures are measured 45 km from the centre, at Salisbury / Quail Ridge.

Bethany Beach 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 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. Bethany Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Salisbury / Quail Ridge (44.9 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBethany BeachThe Hague
Official language-Dutch
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3 m1 m
Main airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)45 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBethany BeachThe Hague
City population954548,320
People per km²3185,589
Museums within 10 km054
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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. 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.

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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.