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The adobe New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
Santa FeThe adobe New Mexico Museum of Art
The skyline reflected in the water, The Hague
The HagueThe skyline reflected in the water

Photos: Santa Fe by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; The Hague by Bráulio jardim, Pexels License.

Santa Fe 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 Santa Fe for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • food and drink
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Santa Fe’s own page.

Choose The Hague for

  • getting around
  • beaches
  • families

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. Santa Fe 5, The Hague 38: The Hague leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Santa Fe 62, The Hague 48: Santa Fe leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Santa Fe and The Hague are level on 66.
Nightlife. Santa Fe 22, The Hague 38: The Hague leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. Santa Fe 80, The Hague 52: Santa Fe leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Santa Fe 70, The Hague 86: The Hague leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Santa Fe 45, The Hague 72: The Hague leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Santa Fe 40, The Hague 78: The Hague leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Santa Fe 62, The Hague 55: Santa Fe leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Santa Fe 30, The Hague 35: The Hague leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Santa Fe 55, The Hague 58: The Hague leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Santa Fe 55, The Hague 45: Santa Fe leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Santa Fe and The Hague.

Your match

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

Santa Fe
49match

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

The Hague
Best match
56match

Wins on getting around and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Santa Fe in July

31 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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

Santa Fe's station stands 199 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Santa Fe 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 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. Santa Fe: 1991-2020 normals, Santa Fe / Cieneguilla (12.4 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSanta FeThe Hague
Official language-Dutch
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,134 m1 m
Main airportSanta Fe Municipal Airport (SAF)12 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSanta FeThe Hague
City population87,505548,320
People per km²6455,589
Museums within 10 km1054
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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