VacationSelector

Cancun or The Hague?

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

Your match

Cancun
50
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

CancunThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. Cancun leads by 37 points.37
CancunThe Hague
Score9760
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km2334
Coast distance3 km3 km
Water distance3 km3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 16 points.16
CancunThe Hague
Score5470
Restaurants within 2 km of centre681798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1843
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 42 points.42
CancunThe Hague
Score2062
Museums within 10 km146
Museums within 2 km of centre126
Share of museums within 2 km %10057
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. The Hague leads by 10 points.10
CancunThe Hague
Score3646
Drinking venues within 4 km270511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6556
Nightclubs within 4 km3319
Nature & day trips. Cancun and The Hague are level on 54.
CancunThe Hague
Score5454
Protected land share 50 km %98
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %4556
Park area within 2 km66 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 24 points.24
CancunThe Hague
Score3256
Tourist attractions within 2 km210
Park area within 2 km66 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km37
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 50 points.50
CancunThe Hague
Score454
Notable places within 2 km586
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Cancun leads by 18 points.18
CancunThe Hague
Score7658
Price level global54.279.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Cancun leads by 27 points.27
CancunThe Hague
Score8154
Monthly daytime high26.2 °C to 30.3 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 224 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months10
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
Cancun
26
27
28
29
30
30
30
30
30
29
27
27
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cancun
No sunshine record
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. Cancun: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCancunThe Hague
MadridMAD
10 h 0 m
€721-977
CUN · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
9 h 30 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
3 h 35 m
€328-337
CUN · 14 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
9 h 50 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
11 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 45 m
€321-392
CUN · 14 km
7 h 45 m
€458-478
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
2 h 10 m
€110-128
CUN · 14 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 25 m
€313-363
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 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

MeasureCancunThe Hague
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaDutch
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 911
Elevation5 m1 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCancunThe Hague
City population888,797548,320
People per km²–5,589
Museums within 10 km154
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre3177
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.