VacationSelector

Florence 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

Florence
55
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

The Hague
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

FlorenceThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 60 points.60
FlorenceThe Hague
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km034
Coast distance78 km3 km
Water distance—3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 11 points.11
FlorenceThe Hague
Score5970
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,299798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1543
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 20 points.20
FlorenceThe Hague
Score8262
Museums within 10 km13246
Museums within 2 km of centre9326
Share of museums within 2 km %7057
Unesco sites within 50 km44
Nightlife. Florence leads by 10 points.10
FlorenceThe Hague
Score5646
Drinking venues within 4 km818511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7356
Nightclubs within 4 km3419
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 16 points.16
FlorenceThe Hague
Score3854
Protected land share 50 km %98
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km86 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 4 points.4
FlorenceThe Hague
Score5256
Tourist attractions within 2 km3010
Park area within 2 km86 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km07
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 21 points.21
FlorenceThe Hague
Score7554
Notable places within 2 km29286
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 10 points.10
FlorenceThe Hague
Score6858
Price level global64.979.2
Daily budget€155€181
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 14 points.14
FlorenceThe Hague
Score6854
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months20
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Florence
No coastline within reach
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
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
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceThe Hague
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€172-198
FLR · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 85 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 101 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 70 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 132 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

MeasureFlorenceThe Hague
Official languageItalianDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation50 m1 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceThe Hague
City population360,930548,320
People per km²3,5285,589
Museums within 10 km14054
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km44
Distinct cuisines in the centre6277
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.