VacationSelector

Salzburg or The Hague?

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

Your match

Salzburg
42
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

SalzburgThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 60 points.60
SalzburgThe Hague
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km934
Coast distance653 km3 km
Water distance—3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 21 points.21
SalzburgThe Hague
Score4970
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2343
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 2 points.2
SalzburgThe Hague
Score6062
Museums within 10 km4246
Museums within 2 km of centre2726
Share of museums within 2 km %6457
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. The Hague leads by 10 points.10
SalzburgThe Hague
Score3646
Drinking venues within 4 km294511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre241288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8256
Nightclubs within 4 km1619
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 27 points.27
SalzburgThe Hague
Score2754
Protected land share 50 km %68
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km39 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 8 points.8
SalzburgThe Hague
Score4856
Tourist attractions within 2 km1710
Park area within 2 km39 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km47
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 8 points.8
SalzburgThe Hague
Score4654
Notable places within 2 km5486
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 1 points.1
SalzburgThe Hague
Score5958
Price level global76.979.2
Daily budget€160€181
Year-round weather. Salzburg and The Hague are level on 54.
SalzburgThe Hague
Score5454
Monthly daytime high3.4 °C to 24.9 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 168 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
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
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. Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSalzburgThe Hague
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 40 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 10 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
2 h 5 m
€198-297
RTM · 16 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 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

MeasureSalzburgThe Hague
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageDutch
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
Elevation424 m1 m
Main airportSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSalzburgThe Hague
City population155,021548,320
People per km²2,3605,589
Museums within 10 km3854
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
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). 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.