VacationSelector

Seattle or The Hague?

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

Your match

Seattle
52
match

Wins on nightlife and year-round weather with your weighting.

The Hague
✓ Best match
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.

SeattleThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. Seattle and The Hague are level on 60.
SeattleThe Hague
Score6060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10034
Coast distance1 km3 km
Water distance1 km3 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 5 points.5
SeattleThe Hague
Score7570
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,460798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3543
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 26 points.26
SeattleThe Hague
Score3662
Museums within 10 km2846
Museums within 2 km of centre1726
Share of museums within 2 km %6157
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Seattle leads by 11 points.11
SeattleThe Hague
Score5746
Drinking venues within 4 km873511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre696288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8056
Nightclubs within 4 km3419
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 14 points.14
SeattleThe Hague
Score4054
Protected land share 50 km %98
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8056
Park area within 2 km63 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 10 points.10
SeattleThe Hague
Score4656
Tourist attractions within 2 km1710
Park area within 2 km63 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 2 points.2
SeattleThe Hague
Score5254
Notable places within 2 km7686
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. The Hague leads by 15 points.15
SeattleThe Hague
Score4358
Price level global10079.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Seattle leads by 7 points.7
SeattleThe Hague
Score6154
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 24.9 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall15 mm to 160 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months30
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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Seattle
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. Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSeattleThe Hague
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
9 h 15 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 10 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 30 m
€111-203
SEA · 18 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
5 h 0 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
8 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 55 m
€257-317
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 50 m
€204-286
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 30 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
11 h 10 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 2026-08 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

MeasureSeattleThe 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 or 911
Elevation40 m1 m
Main airportSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSeattleThe Hague
City population737,015548,320
People per km²1,9965,589
Museums within 10 km2754
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre7877
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.