VacationSelector

The Hague or Vancouver?

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, level with your weighting

The Hague
57
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Vancouver
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife 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 HagueVancouver
Beaches & swimming. The Hague and Vancouver are level on 60.
The HagueVancouver
Score6060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km34109
Coast distance3 km1 km
Water distance3 km1 km
Places to eat. Vancouver leads by 4 points.4
The HagueVancouver
Score7074
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7981,330
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4335
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 28 points.28
The HagueVancouver
Score6234
Museums within 10 km4627
Museums within 2 km of centre2615
Share of museums within 2 km %5756
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Vancouver leads by 11 points.11
The HagueVancouver
Score4657
Drinking venues within 4 km511848
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre288602
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5671
Nightclubs within 4 km1944
Nature & day trips. Vancouver leads by 23 points.23
The HagueVancouver
Score5477
Protected land share 50 km %819
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5660
Park area within 2 km159 hectares103 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 3 points.3
The HagueVancouver
Score5653
Tourist attractions within 2 km1015
Park area within 2 km159 hectares103 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km73
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 6 points.6
The HagueVancouver
Score5448
Notable places within 2 km8663
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. The Hague leads by 4 points.4
The HagueVancouver
Score5854
Price level global79.284
Daily budget€181—
Year-round weather. The Hague leads by 1 points.1
The HagueVancouver
Score5453
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 21.3 °C7.3 °C to 23 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm42 mm to 245 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
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Vancouver
7
8
11
14
18
20
23
23
19
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Vancouver
7
7
8
10
12
14
16
16
14
11
9
8
Rainfall, mm
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Vancouver
237
121
164
114
73
65
42
49
71
155
245
196
Daylight, hours per day
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Vancouver
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Vancouver
2
3
4
6
8
7
10
9
7
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromThe HagueVancouver
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
5 h 15 m
€353-356
YVR · 9 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
2 h 45 m
€147-217
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
€458-478
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
4 h 35 m
€210-223
1 stop
YVR · 9 km
San FranciscoSFO
11 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
EdmontonYEG
8 h 50 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
1 h 35 m
€117-152
YVR · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
YVR · 9 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
11 h 30 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
YVR · 9 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

MeasureThe HagueVancouver
Official languageDutchFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911911
Elevation1 m2 m
Main airportRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureThe HagueVancouver
City population548,320662,248
People per km²5,5895,759
Museums within 10 km5426
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre7785
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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.