VacationSelector

The Hague or Zagreb?

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 beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

Zagreb
47
match

Wins on value for money 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 HagueZagreb
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 60 points.60
The HagueZagreb
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km348
Coast distance3 km117 km
Water distance3 km—
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 18 points.18
The HagueZagreb
Score7052
Restaurants within 2 km of centre798374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4327
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 17 points.17
The HagueZagreb
Score6245
Museums within 10 km4641
Museums within 2 km of centre2640
Share of museums within 2 km %5798
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Zagreb leads by 15 points.15
The HagueZagreb
Score4661
Drinking venues within 4 km5111,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre288571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5657
Nightclubs within 4 km1963
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 20 points.20
The HagueZagreb
Score5434
Protected land share 50 km %89
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km159 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 28 points.28
The HagueZagreb
Score5628
Tourist attractions within 2 km107
Park area within 2 km159 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km70
Sights concentration. Zagreb leads by 6 points.6
The HagueZagreb
Score5460
Notable places within 2 km86122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 22 points.22
The HagueZagreb
Score5880
Price level global79.248.5
Daily budget€181€138
Year-round weather. Zagreb leads by 8 points.8
The HagueZagreb
Score5462
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 21.3 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm47 mm to 104 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
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Zagreb
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Zagreb
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
Zagreb
2
4
5
6
8
9
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). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromThe HagueZagreb
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 5 m
€152-186
AMS · 40 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
€458-478
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 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 HagueZagreb
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 m127 m
Main airportRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureThe HagueZagreb
City population548,320767,131
People per km²5,589–
Museums within 10 km5427
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre7742
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.