VacationSelector

Helsinki 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, level with your weighting

Helsinki
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

The Hague
57
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

HelsinkiThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. Helsinki and The Hague are level on 60.
HelsinkiThe Hague
Score6060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km15734
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Helsinki leads by 1 points.1
HelsinkiThe Hague
Score7170
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,005798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3843
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 13 points.13
HelsinkiThe Hague
Score4962
Museums within 10 km5746
Museums within 2 km of centre2326
Share of museums within 2 km %4057
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Helsinki leads by 10 points.10
HelsinkiThe Hague
Score5646
Drinking venues within 4 km807511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre607288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7556
Nightclubs within 4 km4019
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 12 points.12
HelsinkiThe Hague
Score4254
Protected land share 50 km %38
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5356
Park area within 2 km185 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. Helsinki leads by 2 points.2
HelsinkiThe Hague
Score5856
Tourist attractions within 2 km2010
Park area within 2 km185 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. Helsinki leads by 19 points.19
HelsinkiThe Hague
Score7354
Notable places within 2 km25786
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. The Hague leads by 2 points.2
HelsinkiThe Hague
Score5658
Price level global81.679.2
Daily budget€184€181
Year-round weather. The Hague leads by 6 points.6
HelsinkiThe Hague
Score4854
Monthly daytime high-1.5 °C to 21.9 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 84 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months30
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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A
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Daytime high, °C
Helsinki
-1
-1
2
8
15
19
22
21
15
9
4
1
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Helsinki
2
1
1
2
6
11
16
17
14
10
7
4
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Helsinki
54
38
35
32
41
56
58
84
55
75
70
59
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Helsinki
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Helsinki
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
5
3
1
1
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. Helsinki: 1991-2020 normals, Helsinki Kaisaniemi / Harju (1.6 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHelsinkiThe Hague
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 10 m
€62-63
HEL · 16 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 45 m
€111-131
HEL · 16 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 55 m
€187-219
1 stop
HEL · 16 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
3 h 5 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
4 h 10 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 0 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
€112-224
HEL · 16 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
9 h 20 m
no fares
HEL · 16 km
11 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 2026-08 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

MeasureHelsinkiThe Hague
Official languageFinnish, SwedishDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation17 m1 m
Main airportHelsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL)16 km from centre120 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHelsinkiThe Hague
City population694,392548,320
People per km²3,2395,589
Museums within 10 km7454
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
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). 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.