VacationSelector

Cork or The Hague?

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

Your match

Cork
38
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on museums & heritage and beaches & swimming 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.

CorkThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 32 points.32
CorkThe Hague
Score2860
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km134
Coast distance3 km3 km
Water distance3 km3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 20 points.20
CorkThe Hague
Score5070
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3543
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 39 points.39
CorkThe Hague
Score2362
Museums within 10 km1046
Museums within 2 km of centre826
Share of museums within 2 km %8057
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. The Hague leads by 8 points.8
CorkThe Hague
Score3846
Drinking venues within 4 km361511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8156
Nightclubs within 4 km919
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 2 points.2
CorkThe Hague
Score5254
Protected land share 50 km %—8
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7456
Park area within 2 km48 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 29 points.29
CorkThe Hague
Score2756
Tourist attractions within 2 km710
Park area within 2 km48 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 32 points.32
CorkThe Hague
Score2254
Notable places within 2 km1486
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. The Hague leads by 1 points.1
CorkThe Hague
Score5758
Price level global80.279.2
Daily budget€187€181
Year-round weather. The Hague leads by 5 points.5
CorkThe Hague
Score4954
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 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
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
2
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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCorkThe Hague
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 50 m
€274-294
1 stop
RTM · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 132 km
FaroFAO
2 h 35 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
RTM · 16 km
EdinburghEDI
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
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

MeasureCorkThe Hague
Official languageEnglish, IrishDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation0 m1 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkThe Hague
City population222,333548,320
People per km²5,9615,589
Museums within 10 km554
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre4977
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.