VacationSelector

San Diego 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, 1 point apart

San Diego
58
match

Wins on year-round weather and good for families with your weighting.

The Hague
57
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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.

San DiegoThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. San Diego leads by 3 points.3
San DiegoThe Hague
Score6360
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km4234
Coast distance1 km3 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 7 points.7
San DiegoThe Hague
Score6370
Restaurants within 2 km of centre823798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2743
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 18 points.18
San DiegoThe Hague
Score4462
Museums within 10 km5946
Museums within 2 km of centre3026
Share of museums within 2 km %5157
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. San Diego leads by 4 points.4
San DiegoThe Hague
Score5046
Drinking venues within 4 km615511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre408288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6656
Nightclubs within 4 km3119
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 1 points.1
San DiegoThe Hague
Score5554
Protected land share 50 km %68
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5256
Park area within 2 km308 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 19 points.19
San DiegoThe Hague
Score7556
Tourist attractions within 2 km4010
Park area within 2 km308 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km37
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 14 points.14
San DiegoThe Hague
Score4054
Notable places within 2 km4086
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. The Hague leads by 15 points.15
San DiegoThe Hague
Score4358
Price level global10079.2
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 34 points.34
San DiegoThe Hague
Score8854
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 25 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 56 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months90
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
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
San Diego
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. San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan DiegoThe Hague
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€299-455
1 stop
SAN · 3 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
San FranciscoSFO
1 h 30 m
€121-158
SAN · 3 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Las VegasLAS
1 h 10 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
BostonBOS, PSM
5 h 35 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
4 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
2 h 40 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
MunichMUC
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
1 h 25 m
€203-231
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

MeasureSan DiegoThe Hague
Official languageDutch
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 911
Elevation129 m1 m
Main airportSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan DiegoThe Hague
City population1,386,932548,320
People per km²1,4385,589
Museums within 10 km2654
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre4477
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 monthNone

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