VacationSelector

The Hague or Vienna?

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 beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Vienna
59
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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 HagueVienna
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 60 points.60
The HagueVienna
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3422
Coast distance3 km10,000 km
Water distance3 km—
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 7 points.7
The HagueVienna
Score7077
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7981,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4337
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 19 points.19
The HagueVienna
Score6281
Museums within 10 km46192
Museums within 2 km of centre26110
Share of museums within 2 km %5757
Unesco sites within 50 km43
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 28 points.28
The HagueVienna
Score4674
Drinking venues within 4 km5111,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2881,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5656
Nightclubs within 4 km19108
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 22 points.22
The HagueVienna
Score5432
Protected land share 50 km %84
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km159 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 13 points.13
The HagueVienna
Score5669
Tourist attractions within 2 km1046
Park area within 2 km159 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km74
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 21 points.21
The HagueVienna
Score5475
Notable places within 2 km86287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vienna leads by 1 points.1
The HagueVienna
Score5859
Price level global79.276.9
Daily budget€181€160
Year-round weather. Vienna leads by 7 points.7
The HagueVienna
Score5461
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 21.3 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm38 mm to 80 mm
Dry months01
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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Vienna
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
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromThe HagueVienna
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
2 h 45 m
€152-183
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
1 h 40 m
€109-136
VIE · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
5 h 40 m
€292-307
VIE · 18 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
2 h 10 m
€111-165
VIE · 18 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
VIE · 18 km
CancunCUN
10 h 25 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
VIE · 18 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 HagueVienna
Official languageDutchGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation1 m151 m
Main airportRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureThe HagueVienna
City population548,3202,028,289
People per km²5,5894,890
Museums within 10 km54152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km43
Distinct cuisines in the centre77113
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone–

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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.