VacationSelector

Mexico City or The Hague?

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

Your match

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

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

The Hague
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Mexico CityThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 60 points.60
Mexico CityThe Hague
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km434
Coast distance247 km3 km
Water distance—3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 4 points.4
Mexico CityThe Hague
Score6670
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1543
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 17 points.17
Mexico CityThe Hague
Score7962
Museums within 10 km13846
Museums within 2 km of centre6526
Share of museums within 2 km %4757
Unesco sites within 50 km64
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 32 points.32
Mexico CityThe Hague
Score7846
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4356
Nightclubs within 4 km19819
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 9 points.9
Mexico CityThe Hague
Score6354
Protected land share 50 km %308
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km32 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 6 points.6
Mexico CityThe Hague
Score5056
Tourist attractions within 2 km2310
Park area within 2 km32 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km47
Sights concentration. Mexico City and The Hague are level on 54.
Mexico CityThe Hague
Score5454
Notable places within 2 km8886
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 18 points.18
Mexico CityThe Hague
Score7658
Price level global54.279.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 36 points.36
Mexico CityThe Hague
Score9054
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months60
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
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. Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityThe Hague
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
11 h 20 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
CancunCUN
2 h 10 m
€123-162
MEX · 7 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
3 h 35 m
€248-282
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
BogotaBOG
4 h 25 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
11 h 5 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 25 m
€203-306
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
15 h 20 m
€1,089-1205
3 stops
MEX · 7 km
9 h 55 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

MeasureMexico CityThe Hague
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaDutch
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 911
Elevation2,240 m1 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityThe Hague
City population9,209,944548,320
People per km²6,2025,589
Museums within 10 km10854
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km64
Distinct cuisines in the centre5077
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.