VacationSelector

Chicago or The Hague?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Chicago
56
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

The Hague
57
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

ChicagoThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 7 points.7
ChicagoThe Hague
Score5360
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km1234
Coast distance10,000 km3 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Chicago leads by 11 points.11
ChicagoThe Hague
Score8170
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,147798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3743
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 16 points.16
ChicagoThe Hague
Score4662
Museums within 10 km4546
Museums within 2 km of centre2026
Share of museums within 2 km %4457
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Chicago leads by 16 points.16
ChicagoThe Hague
Score6246
Drinking venues within 4 km1,123511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre728288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6556
Nightclubs within 4 km5119
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 16 points.16
ChicagoThe Hague
Score3854
Protected land share 50 km %68
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km118 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 1 points.1
ChicagoThe Hague
Score5556
Tourist attractions within 2 km1810
Park area within 2 km118 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. Chicago leads by 16 points.16
ChicagoThe Hague
Score7054
Notable places within 2 km21786
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. The Hague leads by 15 points.15
ChicagoThe Hague
Score4358
Price level global10079.2
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Chicago leads by 3 points.3
ChicagoThe Hague
Score5754
Monthly daytime high0.2 °C to 29.4 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 121 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months00
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
Chicago
0
3
9
15
22
27
29
28
25
17
10
3
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Chicago
3
2
2
4
7
14
21
23
20
15
9
6
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Chicago
58
54
68
105
121
115
102
104
85
98
69
59
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Chicago
10
11
12
13
15
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
Chicago
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. Chicago: 1991-2020 normals, Chicago Midway Airport (14.5 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromChicagoThe Hague
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€201-231
ORD · 25 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
8 h 30 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
7 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
8 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
8 h 45 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 20 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
CuracaoCUR
5 h 5 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
MinneapolisMSP, STP
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
1 h 50 m
€141-200
ORD · 25 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 35 m
no fares
ORD · 25 km
11 h 40 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

MeasureChicagoThe Hague
Official languageDutch
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 911
Elevation179 m1 m
Main airportChicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD)25 km from centre272 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureChicagoThe Hague
City population2,746,388548,320
People per km²4,5295,589
Museums within 10 km4354
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre8777
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 monthNone

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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. 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. 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.