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Edinburgh 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

Edinburgh
58
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

The Hague
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

EdinburghThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 5 points.5
EdinburghThe Hague
Score5560
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2034
Coast distance3 km3 km
Water distance3 km3 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh and The Hague are level on 70.
EdinburghThe Hague
Score7070
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3543
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 5 points.5
EdinburghThe Hague
Score5762
Museums within 10 km3046
Museums within 2 km of centre2226
Share of museums within 2 km %7357
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 18 points.18
EdinburghThe Hague
Score6446
Drinking venues within 4 km1,193511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7456
Nightclubs within 4 km6519
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 19 points.19
EdinburghThe Hague
Score3554
Protected land share 50 km %28
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8556
Park area within 2 km166 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 16 points.16
EdinburghThe Hague
Score7256
Tourist attractions within 2 km8710
Park area within 2 km166 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 6 points.6
EdinburghThe Hague
Score6054
Notable places within 2 km12686
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. The Hague leads by 4 points.4
EdinburghThe Hague
Score5458
Price level global84.979.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. The Hague leads by 3 points.3
EdinburghThe Hague
Score5154
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
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. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghThe Hague
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
1 h 5 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
€55-94
EDI · 11 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RTM · 16 km
CancunCUN
9 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 78 km
10 h 25 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

MeasureEdinburghThe Hague
Official languageEnglishDutch
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112 or 911
Elevation47 m1 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghThe Hague
City population488,050548,320
People per km²1,8845,589
Museums within 10 km3254
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre7877
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). 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.