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Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves
The skyline reflected in the water, The Hague
The HagueThe skyline reflected in the water

Photos: Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; The Hague by Bráulio jardim, Pexels License.

Oaxaca 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 Oaxaca for

  • prices
  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose The Hague for

  • beaches
  • families
  • getting around

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. Oaxaca 5, The Hague 38: The Hague leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Oaxaca 84, The Hague 48: Oaxaca leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Oaxaca 74, The Hague 66: Oaxaca leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Oaxaca 40, The Hague 38: Oaxaca leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Oaxaca 62, The Hague 52: Oaxaca leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Oaxaca 65, The Hague 86: The Hague leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Oaxaca 40, The Hague 72: The Hague leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Oaxaca 55, The Hague 78: The Hague leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Oaxaca 62, The Hague 55: Oaxaca leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Oaxaca 77, The Hague 35: Oaxaca leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Oaxaca 38, The Hague 58: The Hague leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Oaxaca 50, The Hague 45: Oaxaca leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Oaxaca and The Hague.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Oaxaca
54match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

The Hague
56match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
13 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. Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOaxacaThe 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
Elevation1,555 m1 m
Main airportXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOaxacaThe Hague
City population258,913548,320
People per km²3,0285,589
Museums within 10 km1054
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. 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.

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.