VacationSelector

The Hague or Zurich?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Zurich
44
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 HagueZurich
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 60 points.60
The HagueZurich
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3423
Coast distance3 km632 km
Water distance3 km—
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 3 points.3
The HagueZurich
Score7067
Restaurants within 2 km of centre798974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4330
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 6 points.6
The HagueZurich
Score6256
Museums within 10 km4676
Museums within 2 km of centre2637
Share of museums within 2 km %5749
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Zurich leads by 8 points.8
The HagueZurich
Score4654
Drinking venues within 4 km511676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre288553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5682
Nightclubs within 4 km1974
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 17 points.17
The HagueZurich
Score5437
Protected land share 50 km %816
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km159 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 20 points.20
The HagueZurich
Score5636
Tourist attractions within 2 km108
Park area within 2 km159 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km72
Sights concentration. Zurich leads by 5 points.5
The HagueZurich
Score5459
Notable places within 2 km86119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. The Hague leads by 23 points.23
The HagueZurich
Score5835
Price level global79.2110.5
Daily budget€181€248
Year-round weather. The Hague leads by 1 points.1
The HagueZurich
Score5453
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 21.3 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm60 mm to 128 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
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Zurich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromThe HagueZurich
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 9 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
1 h 45 m
€204-248
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
2 h 25 m
€207-228
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 40 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 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 HagueZurich
Official languageDutchFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation1 m408 m
Main airportRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureThe HagueZurich
City population548,320452,421
People per km²5,5895,147
Museums within 10 km5463
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre7778
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. 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.