VacationSelector

Sydney or The Hague?

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

Your match

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

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

The Hague
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.

SydneyThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. Sydney and The Hague are level on 60.
SydneyThe Hague
Score6060
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km16034
Coast distance7 km3 km
Water distance7 km3 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 8 points.8
SydneyThe Hague
Score7870
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,205798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3143
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 11 points.11
SydneyThe Hague
Score5162
Museums within 10 km4446
Museums within 2 km of centre2026
Share of museums within 2 km %4557
Unesco sites within 50 km24
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 29 points.29
SydneyThe Hague
Score7546
Drinking venues within 4 km2,050511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,405288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6956
Nightclubs within 4 km12019
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 4 points.4
SydneyThe Hague
Score5854
Protected land share 50 km %108
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5256
Park area within 2 km115 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 8 points.8
SydneyThe Hague
Score6456
Tourist attractions within 2 km3710
Park area within 2 km115 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 6 points.6
SydneyThe Hague
Score6054
Notable places within 2 km12386
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. The Hague leads by 8 points.8
SydneyThe Hague
Score5058
Price level global90.279.2
Daily budget—€181
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 27 points.27
SydneyThe Hague
Score8154
Monthly daytime high17.7 °C to 27.7 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 121 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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8
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. Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSydneyThe Hague
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
19 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
9 h 55 m
€539-575
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Denpasar (Bali)DPS
6 h 5 m
€460-617
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
15 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 30 m
€548-574
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
10 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
8 h 5 m
€498-549
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
SantiagoSCL
14 h 0 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
14 h 45 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

MeasureSydneyThe Hague
Official languageEnglishDutch
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112 or 911
Elevation6 m1 m
Main airportSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSydneyThe Hague
City population5,450,496548,320
People per km²4495,589
Museums within 10 km3854
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Distinct cuisines in the centre7977
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.