VacationSelector

San Francisco or The Hague?

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

Your match

San Francisco
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife 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 FranciscoThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. San Francisco and The Hague are level on 60.
San FranciscoThe Hague
Score6060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4434
Coast distance2 km3 km
Water distance2 km3 km
Places to eat. San Francisco leads by 13 points.13
San FranciscoThe Hague
Score8370
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,359798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3943
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 18 points.18
San FranciscoThe Hague
Score4462
Museums within 10 km5746
Museums within 2 km of centre2926
Share of museums within 2 km %5157
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. San Francisco leads by 22 points.22
San FranciscoThe Hague
Score6846
Drinking venues within 4 km1,434511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre928288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6556
Nightclubs within 4 km9719
Nature & day trips. San Francisco leads by 6 points.6
San FranciscoThe Hague
Score6054
Protected land share 50 km %178
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5756
Park area within 2 km45 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. San Francisco leads by 1 points.1
San FranciscoThe Hague
Score5756
Tourist attractions within 2 km4810
Park area within 2 km45 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. San Francisco leads by 9 points.9
San FranciscoThe Hague
Score6354
Notable places within 2 km14786
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. The Hague leads by 15 points.15
San FranciscoThe Hague
Score4358
Price level global10079.2
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. San Francisco leads by 24 points.24
San FranciscoThe Hague
Score7854
Monthly daytime high14 °C to 23.2 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 105 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months70
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 Francisco
14
16
18
20
20
22
22
23
23
22
18
14
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
San Francisco
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 Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan FranciscoThe Hague
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
10 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 20 m
€662-735
SFO · 18 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
10 h 0 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 2026-09 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 FranciscoThe 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
Elevation16 m1 m
Main airportSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan FranciscoThe Hague
City population873,965548,320
People per km²1,4555,589
Museums within 10 km5054
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre10877
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.