VacationSelector

Los Angeles or The Hague?

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

Your match

Los Angeles
53
match

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

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

Los AngelesThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 31 points.31
Los AngelesThe Hague
Score2960
Beaches 25 km11—
Beaches 10 km034
Swim season months00
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C—
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing—
Declared2026-08-25—
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json—
Coast distance—3 km
Water distance—3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 4 points.4
Los AngelesThe Hague
Score6670
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,337798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2243
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 13 points.13
Los AngelesThe Hague
Score4962
Museums within 10 km6946
Museums within 2 km of centre2326
Share of museums within 2 km %3357
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 8 points.8
Los AngelesThe Hague
Score5446
Drinking venues within 4 km660511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6556
Nightclubs within 4 km6419
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 8 points.8
Los AngelesThe Hague
Score6254
Protected land share 50 km %268
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8056
Park area within 2 km20 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 23 points.23
Los AngelesThe Hague
Score3356
Tourist attractions within 2 km1110
Park area within 2 km20 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. Los Angeles and The Hague are level on 54.
Los AngelesThe Hague
Score5454
Notable places within 2 km8886
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. The Hague leads by 15 points.15
Los AngelesThe Hague
Score4358
Price level global10079.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 33 points.33
Los AngelesThe Hague
Score8754
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months80
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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
No sunshine record
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. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesThe Hague
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
10 h 25 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Las VegasLAS
1 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 0 m
€785-892
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
3 h 35 m
€261-303
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
11 h 30 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

MeasureLos AngelesThe Hague
Official language–Dutch
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 911
Elevation106 m1 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesThe Hague
City population3,898,747548,320
People per km²2,9945,589
Museums within 10 km3854
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre4677
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.