VacationSelector

Lisbon or The Hague?

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

Your match

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife with your weighting.

The Hague
57
match

Wins on 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.

LisbonThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 3 points.3
LisbonThe Hague
Score5760
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2434
Coast distance2 km3 km
Water distance2 km3 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 10 points.10
LisbonThe Hague
Score8070
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,496798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3143
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 8 points.8
LisbonThe Hague
Score7062
Museums within 10 km12446
Museums within 2 km of centre5426
Share of museums within 2 km %4457
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 19 points.19
LisbonThe Hague
Score6546
Drinking venues within 4 km1,225511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7856
Nightclubs within 4 km6519
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 2 points.2
LisbonThe Hague
Score5654
Protected land share 50 km %118
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5456
Park area within 2 km77 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 13 points.13
LisbonThe Hague
Score6956
Tourist attractions within 2 km8210
Park area within 2 km77 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 12 points.12
LisbonThe Hague
Score6654
Notable places within 2 km16986
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 16 points.16
LisbonThe Hague
Score7458
Price level global55.979.2
Daily budget€109€181
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 24 points.24
LisbonThe Hague
Score7854
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
5
5
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. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonThe Hague
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
€126-176
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 35 m
€177-270
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 40 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 55 m
€421-500
2 stops
LIS · 7 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
4 h 10 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
10 h 45 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

MeasureLisbonThe Hague
Official languagePortugueseDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation100 m1 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonThe Hague
City population545,796548,320
People per km²5,4535,589
Museums within 10 km7854
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre10677
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.