VacationSelector

Strasbourg or The Hague?

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

Your match

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on year-round weather and sights concentration with your weighting.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

The verdict

Choose Strasbourg if you want the warmer trip and a centre you can walk: summer highs reach 26°C, more of its notable places sit within walking distance, and 37% of the land around it is protected.

Choose The Hague if you want the coast and the museums: 34 beaches nearby, about twice as many museums as Strasbourg, and more for children to do.

Scoreboard

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

StrasbourgThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 60 points.60
StrasbourgThe Hague
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km934
Coast distance398 km3 km
Water distance—3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 3 points.3
StrasbourgThe Hague
Score6770
Restaurants within 2 km of centre780798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3643
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 21 points.21
StrasbourgThe Hague
Score4162
Museums within 10 km2346
Museums within 2 km of centre1426
Share of museums within 2 km %6157
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. The Hague leads by 10 points.10
StrasbourgThe Hague
Score3646
Drinking venues within 4 km305511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre264288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8756
Nightclubs within 4 km1719
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg and The Hague are level on 54.
StrasbourgThe Hague
Score5454
Protected land share 50 km %378
Landscape blanket share 50 km %350
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km71 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 18 points.18
StrasbourgThe Hague
Score3856
Tourist attractions within 2 km910
Park area within 2 km71 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 4 points.4
StrasbourgThe Hague
Score5854
Notable places within 2 km10986
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Strasbourg leads by 4 points.4
StrasbourgThe Hague
Score6258
Price level global73.779.2
Daily budget€160€181
Year-round weather. Strasbourg leads by 9 points.9
StrasbourgThe Hague
Score6354
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 26.4 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 77 mm42 mm to 85 mm
Dry months30
0255075100

Where they differ

Strasbourg runs warmer, with daytime highs of 5-26°C against The Hague's 6-21°C, and packs more notable places into walking distance of its centre. Its surroundings are wilder too: 37% of the land is protected against 8% around The Hague.

The Hague has the coast, 34 beaches against Strasbourg's 9, and about twice as many museums. It is also the easier city with children, with 7 theme parks within reach against 1, and more park space near the centre.

Where they are alike

On getting out of the city the two are level, though they get there differently: Strasbourg has the wider stretch of protected countryside, The Hague more green space close in. Neither leaves you short of a day out.

They are also close on eating out, on how tightly sights cluster and on national price levels: similar numbers of restaurants near the centre, walkable centres in both, and daily budgets of €160 and €181 for France and the Netherlands.

Which traveller are you?

Travelling with children: The Hague. It has 7 theme parks within reach against Strasbourg's 1, beaches on the doorstep and roughly twice as much park space near the centre, which matters on days when plans fall apart.

Museums first: The Hague again, with about twice as many and 4 UNESCO-listed places within day-trip reach against 1. Strasbourg suits you better on a short stay, since its museums sit tightly around the centre.

Warm-weather walking: Strasbourg. Summer highs reach 26°C, more of its notable places are within walking distance, and 37% of the surrounding land is protected, so days out mean open country rather than city parks.

What the numbers don't tell you

The daily budget figures, €160 for France and €181 for the Netherlands, are national estimates of restaurant and hotel price levels, not measurements of either city. A capital or a heavily visited city can sit further from its own country's average than the two figures sit from each other, so the gap is no guide to which trip costs more.

The beach count works the same way. The Hague's coast is real, but the sea peaks at 19°C in August, and July and August are also its wettest months, so warm water and dry days do not reliably arrive together.

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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Strasbourg
No coastline within reach
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
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. Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Strasbourg is the stronger summer trip: highs of 24-26°C from June to August, and September still at 22°C with 55mm of rain. April, at 17°C and 42mm, is the driest mild month; May is its wettest at 77mm.

The Hague peaks in July and August at 21°C, when the sea reaches 18-19°C, though those are also its wettest months at 84-85mm. April, at 13°C and 42mm, is its driest month by a clear margin.

Getting there

Flying fromStrasbourgThe Hague
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
RTM · 16 km
DublinDUB
2 h 0 m
no fares
BSL · 110 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
no fares
BSL · 110 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 35 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 45 m
no fares
BSL · 110 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 137 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 137 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
12 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 2026-09 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

MeasureStrasbourgThe Hague
Official languageFrenchDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation132 m1 m
Main airportStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureStrasbourgThe Hague
City population293,771548,320
People per km²3,7525,589
Museums within 10 km2154
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre8777
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.