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The Esplanade boardwalk and its palms, Cairns
CairnsThe Esplanade boardwalk and its palms
The skyline reflected in the water, The Hague
The HagueThe skyline reflected in the water

Photos: Cairns by Donaldytong, Public domain; The Hague by Bráulio jardim, Pexels License.

Cairns 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 Cairns for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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

Choose The Hague for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • 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. Cairns 62, The Hague 38: Cairns leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Cairns 40, The Hague 48: The Hague leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Cairns 22, The Hague 66: The Hague leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Cairns 42, The Hague 38: Cairns leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cairns 95, The Hague 52: Cairns leads by 43 points.
Day trips. Cairns 45, The Hague 86: The Hague leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Cairns 66, The Hague 72: The Hague leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Cairns 45, The Hague 78: The Hague leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Cairns 28, The Hague 55: The Hague leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Cairns and The Hague are level on 35.
Live music & performing arts. Cairns 22, The Hague 58: The Hague leads by 36 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cairns and The Hague are level on 45.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cairns and The Hague.

Your match

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

Cairns
46match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches with your weighting.

The Hague
Best match
56match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cairns in July

24 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
30 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
11 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

Cairns's temperatures are measured 27 km from the centre, at Green Island Aws.

Cairns 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. Cairns: 1993-2010 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Green Island Aws (27 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureCairnsThe Hague
Official languageEnglishDutch
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation7 m1 m
Main airportCairns International Airport (CNS)6 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCairnsThe Hague
City population146,778548,320
People per km²3015,589
Museums within 10 km154
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.