VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Rotterdam?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Rotterdam
54
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

Hong KongRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 50 points.50
Hong KongRotterdam
Score8737
Swim season months80
Beaches 10 km6522
Coast distance0 km24 km
Water distance0 km24 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 16 points.16
Hong KongRotterdam
Score8872
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,325862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3246
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 24 points.24
Hong KongRotterdam
Score3660
Museums within 10 km5041
Museums within 2 km of centre1720
Share of museums within 2 km %3449
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 22 points.22
Hong KongRotterdam
Score7149
Drinking venues within 4 km1,948542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5970
Nightclubs within 4 km3740
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 22 points.22
Hong KongRotterdam
Score6442
Protected land share 50 km %810
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %2979
Park area within 2 km52 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 4 points.4
Hong KongRotterdam
Score5862
Tourist attractions within 2 km2727
Park area within 2 km52 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km58
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 18 points.18
Hong KongRotterdam
Score6951
Notable places within 2 km20474
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hong Kong leads by 5 points.5
Hong KongRotterdam
Score6358
Price level global7279.2
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 18 points.18
Hong KongRotterdam
Score7456
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months40
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
Rotterdam
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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongRotterdam
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
13 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€147-156
HKG · 25 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
12 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 5 m
€279-371
HKG · 25 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 5 m
€168-188
HKG · 25 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
2 h 40 m
€170-184
HKG · 25 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
17 h 15 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasureHong KongRotterdam
Official languageStandard ChineseDutch
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112 or 911
Elevation7 m10 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongRotterdam
City population7,413,070664,311
People per km²2,080
Museums within 10 km3940
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre7677
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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). 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.