VacationSelector

Munich or The Hague?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Munich
57
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

The Hague
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

MunichThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 60 points.60
MunichThe Hague
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km634
Coast distance579 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Munich leads by 3 points.3
MunichThe Hague
Score7370
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,280798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3543
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 1 points.1
MunichThe Hague
Score6162
Museums within 10 km7446
Museums within 2 km of centre4826
Share of museums within 2 km %6557
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Munich leads by 21 points.21
MunichThe Hague
Score6746
Drinking venues within 4 km1,335511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre763288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5756
Nightclubs within 4 km10319
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 6 points.6
MunichThe Hague
Score4854
Protected land share 50 km %178
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km199 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 23 points.23
MunichThe Hague
Score7956
Tourist attractions within 2 km8010
Park area within 2 km199 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 14 points.14
MunichThe Hague
Score6854
Notable places within 2 km19686
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Munich leads by 2 points.2
MunichThe Hague
Score6058
Price level global75.979.2
Daily budget€163€181
Year-round weather. Munich leads by 2 points.2
MunichThe Hague
Score5654
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 25 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 121 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months00
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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Munich
No coastline within reach
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
2
2
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. Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMunichThe Hague
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
2 h 15 m
€128-169
MUC · 29 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 35 m
€237-292
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 0 m
€292-332
MUC · 29 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 15 m
€256
MUC · 29 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
12 h 10 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

MeasureMunichThe Hague
Official languageGermanDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation519 m1 m
Main airportMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureMunichThe Hague
City population1,510,378548,320
People per km²4,8615,589
Museums within 10 km7454
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre8977
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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