VacationSelector

The Hague or Venice?

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 nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
57
match

Wins on sights concentration 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 HagueVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 9 points.9
The HagueVenice
Score6069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km3420
Coast distance3 km4 km
Water distance3 km4 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 25 points.25
The HagueVenice
Score7045
Restaurants within 2 km of centre798750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4310
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 10 points.10
The HagueVenice
Score6272
Museums within 10 km4657
Museums within 2 km of centre2645
Share of museums within 2 km %5779
Unesco sites within 50 km45
Nightlife. The Hague leads by 11 points.11
The HagueVenice
Score4635
Drinking venues within 4 km511342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre288306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5689
Nightclubs within 4 km193
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 37 points.37
The HagueVenice
Score5417
Protected land share 50 km %84
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5670
Park area within 2 km159 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 1 points.1
The HagueVenice
Score5657
Tourist attractions within 2 km1072
Park area within 2 km159 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km73
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 29 points.29
The HagueVenice
Score5483
Notable places within 2 km86464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 10 points.10
The HagueVenice
Score5868
Price level global79.264.9
Daily budget€181€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 12 points.12
The HagueVenice
Score5466
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 21.3 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromThe HagueVenice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
2 h 15 m
€79-96
VCE · 7 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
2 h 0 m
€78-139
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
10 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 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 HagueVenice
Official languageDutchItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation1 m2 m
Main airportRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureThe HagueVenice
City population548,320250,369
People per km²5,589602
Museums within 10 km5452
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km45
Distinct cuisines in the centre7746
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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.