VacationSelector

Aarhus or Dresden?

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

Your match

Aarhus
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Dresden
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AarhusDresden
Beaches & swimming. Aarhus leads by 59 points.59
AarhusDresden
Score590
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2822
Coast distance0 km267 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 8 points.8
AarhusDresden
Score5361
Restaurants within 2 km of centre427422
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2642
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 16 points.16
AarhusDresden
Score3854
Museums within 10 km2666
Museums within 2 km of centre2034
Share of museums within 2 km %7752
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 2 points.2
AarhusDresden
Score4042
Drinking venues within 4 km382359
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre330265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8674
Nightclubs within 4 km1543
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 11 points.11
AarhusDresden
Score2839
Protected land share 50 km %214
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %68100
Park area within 2 km72 hectares80 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 26 points.26
AarhusDresden
Score3359
Tourist attractions within 2 km632
Park area within 2 km72 hectares80 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 16 points.16
AarhusDresden
Score3753
Notable places within 2 km3382
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 8 points.8
AarhusDresden
Score5260
Price level global87.875.9
Daily budget€214€163
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 9 points.9
AarhusDresden
Score5362
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 21.6 °C4 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 74 mm31 mm to 83 mm
Dry months34
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
Aarhus
4
4
7
12
16
19
22
21
17
12
8
5
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Aarhus
3
2
3
6
11
15
17
18
15
12
8
5
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Aarhus
51
37
36
33
46
64
62
74
66
68
55
50
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Daylight, hours per day
Aarhus
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Aarhus
No sunshine record
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Aarhus: 1991-2020 normals, Tirstrup (29.8 km from centre). Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAarhusDresden
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
CopenhagenCPH
50 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
1 h 25 m
€66-91
PRG · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 40 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 45 m
no fares
BLL · 80 km
3 h 5 m
€318-375
1 stop
DRS · 10 km
HurghadaHRG
5 h 5 m
no fares
AAR · 30 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
DRS · 10 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

MeasureAarhusDresden
Official languageDanishGerman
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation6 m126 m
Main airportAarhus Airport (AAR)30 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAarhusDresden
City population290,598564,904
People per km²3,1931,720
Museums within 10 km1770
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3777
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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.