VacationSelector

Stockholm or The Hague?

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

Your match

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

The Hague
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

StockholmThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm and The Hague are level on 60.
StockholmThe Hague
Score6060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km7334
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 6 points.6
StockholmThe Hague
Score7670
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,558798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3643
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 7 points.7
StockholmThe Hague
Score6962
Museums within 10 km7446
Museums within 2 km of centre4726
Share of museums within 2 km %6457
Unesco sites within 50 km34
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 18 points.18
StockholmThe Hague
Score6446
Drinking venues within 4 km1,090511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre689288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6356
Nightclubs within 4 km10619
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 13 points.13
StockholmThe Hague
Score4154
Protected land share 50 km %78
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7756
Park area within 2 km104 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 1 points.1
StockholmThe Hague
Score5756
Tourist attractions within 2 km2310
Park area within 2 km104 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 25 points.25
StockholmThe Hague
Score7954
Notable places within 2 km35786
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. The Hague leads by 1 points.1
StockholmThe Hague
Score5758
Price level global80.379.2
Daily budget€169€181
Year-round weather. The Hague leads by 1 points.1
StockholmThe Hague
Score5354
Monthly daytime high1 °C to 23.6 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 66 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months50
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1
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. Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromStockholmThe Hague
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
3 h 45 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
9 h 50 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
9 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

MeasureStockholmThe Hague
Official languageSwedishDutch
CurrencySwedish Krona (SEK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation22 m1 m
Main airportStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureStockholmThe Hague
City population984,748548,320
People per km²5,2605,589
Museums within 10 km26654
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km34
Distinct cuisines in the centre8177
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.