VacationSelector

Ottawa or The Hague?

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

Your match

Ottawa
43
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

OttawaThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 60 points.60
OttawaThe Hague
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km934
Coast distance423 km3 km
Water distance—3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 6 points.6
OttawaThe Hague
Score6470
Restaurants within 2 km of centre684798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3443
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 30 points.30
OttawaThe Hague
Score3262
Museums within 10 km1546
Museums within 2 km of centre826
Share of museums within 2 km %5357
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. The Hague leads by 2 points.2
OttawaThe Hague
Score4446
Drinking venues within 4 km432511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre303288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7056
Nightclubs within 4 km3519
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 13 points.13
OttawaThe Hague
Score4154
Protected land share 50 km %88
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km122 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 10 points.10
OttawaThe Hague
Score4656
Tourist attractions within 2 km1110
Park area within 2 km122 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 4 points.4
OttawaThe Hague
Score5054
Notable places within 2 km7186
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. The Hague leads by 4 points.4
OttawaThe Hague
Score5458
Price level global8479.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. The Hague leads by 1 points.1
OttawaThe Hague
Score5354
Monthly daytime high-4.9 °C to 27 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall53 mm to 94 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
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Ottawa
No coastline within reach
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Ottawa
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. Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromOttawaThe Hague
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
7 h 45 m
€458-478
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
50 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
CancunCUN
4 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Punta CanaPUJ
4 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
CalgaryYYC
4 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
4 h 50 m
€175-263
2 stops
YOW · 12 km
9 h 45 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

MeasureOttawaThe Hague
Official languageFrench, EnglishDutch
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 911
Elevation70 m1 m
Main airportOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureOttawaThe Hague
City population1,017,449548,320
People per km²3665,589
Museums within 10 km2054
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre6277
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.