VacationSelector

The Hague or Zadar?

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

Your match

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on places to eat and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

Wins on value for money 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 HagueZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 13 points.13
The HagueZadar
Score6073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km3449
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 45 points.45
The HagueZadar
Score7025
Restaurants within 2 km of centre798143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4311
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 29 points.29
The HagueZadar
Score6233
Museums within 10 km468
Museums within 2 km of centre268
Share of museums within 2 km %57100
Unesco sites within 50 km42
Nightlife. The Hague leads by 21 points.21
The HagueZadar
Score4625
Drinking venues within 4 km511194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre288139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5672
Nightclubs within 4 km194
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 1 points.1
The HagueZadar
Score5455
Protected land share 50 km %812
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5647
Park area within 2 km159 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 25 points.25
The HagueZadar
Score5631
Tourist attractions within 2 km109
Park area within 2 km159 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 23 points.23
The HagueZadar
Score5431
Notable places within 2 km8623
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 22 points.22
The HagueZadar
Score5880
Price level global79.248.5
Daily budget€181€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 15 points.15
The HagueZadar
Score5469
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 21.3 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm25 mm to 117 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
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
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
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromThe HagueZadar
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
2 h 10 m
€129-176
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
AmsterdamAMS
50 m
no fares
BRU · 132 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 10 m
no fares
RTM · 16 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
1 h 25 m
€203-231
AMS · 40 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 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 HagueZadar
Official languageDutchCroatian
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 m5 m
Main airportRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureThe HagueZadar
City population548,32070,779
People per km²5,589–
Museums within 10 km541
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Distinct cuisines in the centre7717
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.