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The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier
The skyline reflected in the water, The Hague
The HagueThe skyline reflected in the water

Photos: Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; The Hague by Bráulio jardim, Pexels License.

Los Angeles or The Hague?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Los Angeles for

  • food and drink
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Angeles’s own page.

Choose The Hague for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on The Hague’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles 60, The Hague 38: Los Angeles leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Los Angeles 84, The Hague 48: Los Angeles leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Los Angeles and The Hague are level on 66.
Nightlife. Los Angeles 67, The Hague 38: Los Angeles leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Los Angeles 80, The Hague 52: Los Angeles leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Los Angeles 60, The Hague 86: The Hague leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Los Angeles 84, The Hague 72: Los Angeles leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Los Angeles 25, The Hague 78: The Hague leads by 53 points.
Shopping & style. Los Angeles 80, The Hague 55: Los Angeles leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Los Angeles 24, The Hague 35: The Hague leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Los Angeles 83, The Hague 58: Los Angeles leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Los Angeles 60, The Hague 45: Los Angeles leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Los Angeles and The Hague.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on food and drink and nightlife with your weighting.

The Hague
56match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

The Hague in July

21 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

The Hague has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

The Hague's sunshine is measured 60 km from the centre, at De Bilt.

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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
Elevation106 m1 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre53 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 km3954
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.