VacationSelector

Dubai 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, 2 points apart

Dubai
55
match

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

The Hague
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

DubaiThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 40 points.40
DubaiThe Hague
Score10060
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km5234
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 4 points.4
DubaiThe Hague
Score6670
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,086798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2643
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 24 points.24
DubaiThe Hague
Score3862
Museums within 10 km2646
Museums within 2 km of centre1826
Share of museums within 2 km %6957
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Dubai leads by 7 points.7
DubaiThe Hague
Score5346
Drinking venues within 4 km601511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre306288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5156
Nightclubs within 4 km8419
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 36 points.36
DubaiThe Hague
Score1854
Protected land share 50 km %48
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5256
Park area within 2 km13 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 7 points.7
DubaiThe Hague
Score4956
Tourist attractions within 2 km3710
Park area within 2 km13 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km47
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 17 points.17
DubaiThe Hague
Score3754
Notable places within 2 km3386
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dubai leads by 11 points.11
DubaiThe Hague
Score6958
Price level global63.479.2
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Dubai leads by 12 points.12
DubaiThe Hague
Score6654
Monthly daytime high24.5 °C to 42.1 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 21 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months120
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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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubai
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. Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubaiThe Hague
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 35 m
€476-487
DXB · 7 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
7 h 40 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
7 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
6 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
6 h 50 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
7 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
6 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
RiyadhRUH
1 h 40 m
€106-123
1 stop
DXB · 7 km
6 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
8 h 15 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
16 h 45 m
€1,139-1335
DXB · 7 km
14 h 10 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 2026-09 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

MeasureDubaiThe Hague
Official languageArabicDutch
CurrencyUAE Dirham (AED)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation0 m1 m
Main airportDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDubaiThe Hague
City population3,944,751548,320
People per km²5,589
Museums within 10 km1454
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre5277
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). 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.