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Cusco or The Hague?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Plaza de Armas with the cathedral and La Compañía, Cusco
Cusco

Photo: Pedro Szekely, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped

The skyline reflected in the water, The Hague
The Hague

Photo: Bráulio jardim, Pexels License

Your match

Cusco
49
match

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

The Hague
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

CuscoThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 35 points.35
Food & drink. Cusco leads by 8 points.8
Culture & sights. Cusco leads by 15 points.15
Nightlife. Cusco leads by 4 points.4
Nature & outdoors. Cusco leads by 34 points.34
Day trips. The Hague leads by 8 points.8
Good for families. The Hague leads by 62 points.62
Getting around. The Hague leads by 30 points.30
Shopping & style. The Hague leads by 3 points.3
Affordability. Cusco leads by 38 points.38
Live music & performing arts. The Hague leads by 28 points.28
Wellness & relaxation. The Hague leads by 12 points.12
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cusco and The Hague.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyCuscoThe Hague
Daytime high20 °C21 °C
Night-time low1 °C14 °C
Rainfall in the month5 mm85 mm
SunshineNo figure7 hours a day
Sea temperatureNo sea18 °C
Daylight11 hours a day16 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Cusco
20
19
20
20
21
21
20
21
21
21
22
20
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Cusco
No coastline within reach
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Cusco
159
133
106
36
7
3
5
6
17
50
78
127
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Cusco
13
13
12
12
12
11
11
12
12
12
13
13
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cusco
No sunshine record
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Where the figures come from

Cusco's station stands 151 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

The Hague's rainfall is measured 60 km from the centre, at De Bilt.

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. Cusco: 1991-2020 normals, Cuzco (3.7 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCuscoThe Hague
LimaLIM
1 h 20 m
€95-160
CUZ · 5 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
SantiagoSCL
3 h 15 m
no fares
CUZ · 5 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
BogotaBOG
3 h 5 m
€424-527
1 stop
CUZ · 5 km
11 h 5 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 2026-10 to 2026-12, 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

MeasureCuscoThe Hague
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaDutch
CurrencySol (PEN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112 or 911
Elevation3,399 m1 m
Main airportAlejandro Velasco Astete International Airport (CUZ)5 km from centre6 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCuscoThe Hague
City population428,450548,320
People per km²-5,589
Museums within 10 km1154
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.