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The Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls, Antibes
AntibesThe Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls
The Semperoper, Dresden
DresdenThe Semperoper

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Dresden by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antibes or Dresden?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Antibes for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Antibes’s own page.

Choose Dresden for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Dresden’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Antibes 80, Dresden 10: Antibes leads by 70 points.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, Dresden 45: Antibes leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, Dresden 79: Dresden leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Antibes 40, Dresden 47: Dresden leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, Dresden 74: Dresden leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, Dresden 76: Antibes leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Antibes 55, Dresden 60: Dresden leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Antibes 62, Dresden 74: Dresden leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, Dresden 42: Dresden leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, Dresden 55: Dresden leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, Dresden 76: Dresden leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, Dresden 42: Dresden leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and Dresden.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Antibes
52match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

Dresden
Best match
57match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Antibes in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Dresden in July

26 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntibesDresden
Official languageFrenchGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m126 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesDresden
City population77,637562,764
People per km²2,9301,713
Museums within 10 km1470
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.