VacationSelector

San Jose 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 Jose
39
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

San JoseThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 52 points.52
San JoseThe Hague
Score860
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km134
Coast distance14 km3 km
Water distance14 km3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 29 points.29
San JoseThe Hague
Score4170
Restaurants within 2 km of centre313798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1643
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 36 points.36
San JoseThe Hague
Score2662
Museums within 10 km2046
Museums within 2 km of centre926
Share of museums within 2 km %4557
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. The Hague leads by 15 points.15
San JoseThe Hague
Score3146
Drinking venues within 4 km231511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre88288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3856
Nightclubs within 4 km1619
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 16 points.16
San JoseThe Hague
Score7054
Protected land share 50 km %268
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %9156
Park area within 2 km101 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 23 points.23
San JoseThe Hague
Score3356
Tourist attractions within 2 km210
Park area within 2 km101 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 40 points.40
San JoseThe Hague
Score1454
Notable places within 2 km986
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. The Hague leads by 15 points.15
San JoseThe Hague
Score4358
Price level global10079.2
Daily budget€181
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 31 points.31
San JoseThe Hague
Score8554
Monthly daytime high15.4 °C to 26.8 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 78 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months80
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 Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
San Jose
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 Jose
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 Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan JoseThe Hague
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
10 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 20 m
€662-735
SFO · 57 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
2 h 10 m
no fares
SFO · 57 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 2026-09 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 JoseThe 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
Elevation25 m1 m
Main airportMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan JoseThe Hague
City population1,013,240548,320
People per km²2,1675,589
Museums within 10 km1954
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre3077
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.