VacationSelector

Atlanta or Dresden?

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

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Wins on nightlife and year-round weather with your weighting.

Dresden
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

AtlantaDresden
Beaches & swimming. Atlanta and Dresden are level on 0.
AtlantaDresden
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance373 km267 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 2 points.2
AtlantaDresden
Score5961
Restaurants within 2 km of centre739422
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2342
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 19 points.19
AtlantaDresden
Score3554
Museums within 10 km4166
Museums within 2 km of centre1634
Share of museums within 2 km %3952
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Atlanta leads by 7 points.7
AtlantaDresden
Score4942
Drinking venues within 4 km531359
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5374
Nightclubs within 4 km4643
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 8 points.8
AtlantaDresden
Score3139
Protected land share 50 km %114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km113 hectares80 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 27 points.27
AtlantaDresden
Score3259
Tourist attractions within 2 km232
Park area within 2 km113 hectares80 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 13 points.13
AtlantaDresden
Score4053
Notable places within 2 km3982
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 17 points.17
AtlantaDresden
Score4360
Price level global10075.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 5 points.5
AtlantaDresden
Score6762
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C4 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm31 mm to 83 mm
Dry months04
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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
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. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaDresden
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
9 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
9 h 20 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
SeoulICN, GMP
14 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
MarrakechRAK
8 h 55 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
PRG · 112 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 2026-09 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

MeasureAtlantaDresden
Official languageGerman
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation225 m126 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaDresden
City population498,715564,904
People per km²1,4331,720
Museums within 10 km2770
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre5677

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.