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The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
San FranciscoThe Golden Gate Bridge
The skyline reflected in the water, The Hague
The HagueThe skyline reflected in the water

Photos: San Francisco by Elijah Cobb, Pexels License; The Hague by Bráulio jardim, Pexels License.

San Francisco 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 San Francisco for

  • food and drink
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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

Choose The Hague for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • beaches

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. San Francisco 25, The Hague 38: The Hague leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. San Francisco 82, The Hague 48: San Francisco leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. San Francisco 68, The Hague 66: San Francisco leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. San Francisco 58, The Hague 38: San Francisco leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. San Francisco 80, The Hague 52: San Francisco leads by 28 points.
Day trips. San Francisco 72, The Hague 86: The Hague leads by 14 points.
Good for families. San Francisco 66, The Hague 72: The Hague leads by 6 points.
Getting around. San Francisco 70, The Hague 78: The Hague leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. San Francisco 58, The Hague 55: San Francisco leads by 3 points.
Affordability. San Francisco 14, The Hague 35: The Hague leads by 21 points.
Live music & performing arts. San Francisco 76, The Hague 58: San Francisco leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. San Francisco 42, The Hague 45: The Hague leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: San Francisco and The Hague.

Your match

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

San Francisco
Best match
59match

Wins on food and drink and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

The Hague
56match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

San Francisco in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
15 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. 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).

Before you go

MeasureSan FranciscoThe Hague
Official language-Dutch
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
Elevation16 m1 m
Main airportSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre53 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 km5154
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.