VacationSelector

Shanghai or The Hague?

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

Your match

Shanghai
54
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

ShanghaiThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 43 points.43
ShanghaiThe Hague
Score1760
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km034
Coast distance18 km3 km
Water distance18 km3 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 17 points.17
ShanghaiThe Hague
Score4562
Museums within 10 km10846
Museums within 2 km of centre2826
Share of museums within 2 km %2657
Unesco sites within 50 km04
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Shanghai.
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 12 points.12
ShanghaiThe Hague
Score4254
Protected land share 50 km %98
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8256
Park area within 2 km83 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. Shanghai leads by 25 points.25
ShanghaiThe Hague
Score8156
Tourist attractions within 2 km8610
Park area within 2 km83 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km107
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 3 points.3
ShanghaiThe Hague
Score5154
Notable places within 2 km7386
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Shanghai leads by 21 points.21
ShanghaiThe Hague
Score7958
Price level global4979.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Shanghai leads by 11 points.11
ShanghaiThe Hague
Score6554
Monthly daytime high8.5 °C to 33.2 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 216 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months00
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
Shanghai
9
11
15
21
26
28
33
33
29
23
18
12
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Shanghai
8
7
10
14
19
22
26
28
26
21
17
12
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Shanghai
69
65
88
72
84
192
151
216
97
64
53
43
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Shanghai
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Shanghai
4
4
5
5
6
4
6
6
5
5
4
4
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. Shanghai: 1991-2020 normals, Shanghai / Hongqiao (8.1 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromShanghaiThe Hague
DublinDUB
11 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
12 h 45 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 25 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 35 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
8 h 15 m
€508-557
1 stop
PVG · 33 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
11 h 30 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
14 h 40 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
9 h 50 m
no fares
PVG · 33 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
ChengduTFU, CTU
2 h 35 m
€216-247
PVG · 33 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
BRU · 132 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
23 h 45 m
€1,545-1873
2 stops
PVG · 33 km
14 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

MeasureShanghaiThe Hague
Official languagePutonghuaDutch
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112 or 911
Elevation4 m1 m
Main airportShanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG)33 km from centre200 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureShanghaiThe Hague
City population24,870,895548,320
People per km²3,9225,589
Museums within 10 km4454
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre6477
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.