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The Hague or Thessaloniki?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

The Hague
57
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

Thessaloniki
59
match

Wins on nightlife and year-round weather 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.

The HagueThessaloniki
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 5 points.5
The HagueThessaloniki
Score6055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km344
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 20 points.20
The HagueThessaloniki
Score7050
Restaurants within 2 km of centre798640
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4315
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 13 points.13
The HagueThessaloniki
Score6249
Museums within 10 km4634
Museums within 2 km of centre2622
Share of museums within 2 km %5765
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Thessaloniki leads by 21 points.21
The HagueThessaloniki
Score4667
Drinking venues within 4 km5111,407
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre288805
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5657
Nightclubs within 4 km1961
Nature & day trips. Thessaloniki leads by 11 points.11
The HagueThessaloniki
Score5465
Protected land share 50 km %825
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5683
Park area within 2 km159 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 15 points.15
The HagueThessaloniki
Score5641
Tourist attractions within 2 km1016
Park area within 2 km159 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. Thessaloniki leads by 2 points.2
The HagueThessaloniki
Score5456
Notable places within 2 km8698
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Thessaloniki leads by 16 points.16
The HagueThessaloniki
Score5874
Price level global79.255.8
Daily budget€181€125
Year-round weather. Thessaloniki leads by 18 points.18
The HagueThessaloniki
Score5472
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 21.3 °C9.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm21 mm to 56 mm
Dry months09
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
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Thessaloniki
10
11
15
19
25
30
32
32
27
21
16
11
Sea temperature, °C
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Thessaloniki
14
13
13
15
19
23
26
27
25
21
18
15
Rainfall, mm
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Thessaloniki
35
32
38
36
44
30
23
21
33
41
38
56
Daylight, hours per day
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Thessaloniki
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Thessaloniki
4
4
6
6
9
11
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre). Thessaloniki: 1991-2020 normals, Thessaloniki Airport (14 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromThe HagueThessaloniki
AthensATH
3 h 15 m
€191-265
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
1 h 0 m
€97-118
SKG · 14 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
2 h 50 m
€98-154
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
3 h 10 m
€138-200
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
3 h 15 m
€95-156
SKG · 14 km
HeraklionHER
3 h 35 m
no fares
RTM · 16 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SKG · 14 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
55 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
2 h 40 m
€127-199
1 stop
SKG · 14 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 35 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
2 h 20 m
€208-315
1 stop
SKG · 14 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

MeasureThe HagueThessaloniki
Official languageDutchGreek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation1 m6 m
Main airportRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsThessaloniki Macedonia International Airport (SKG)14 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureThe HagueThessaloniki
City population548,320309,617
People per km²5,58916,042
Museums within 10 km5431
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre7745
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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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). 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. 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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.