VacationSelector

Beijing or Dresden?

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

Your match

Beijing
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Dresden
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

BeijingDresden
Beaches & swimming. Beijing and Dresden are level on 0.
BeijingDresden
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance145 km267 km
Water distance
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 9 points.9
BeijingDresden
Score6354
Museums within 10 km9566
Museums within 2 km of centre1534
Share of museums within 2 km %1652
Unesco sites within 50 km61
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 4 points.4
BeijingDresden
Score3539
Protected land share 50 km %314
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km143 hectares80 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 18 points.18
BeijingDresden
Score7759
Tourist attractions within 2 km4132
Park area within 2 km143 hectares80 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km122
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
BeijingDresden
Score5053
Notable places within 2 km6982
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Beijing leads by 19 points.19
BeijingDresden
Score7960
Price level global4975.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Beijing leads by 4 points.4
BeijingDresden
Score6662
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C4 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm31 mm to 83 mm
Dry months84
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingDresden
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 55 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 10 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 0 m
€475-645
PEK · 25 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 0 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 45 m
€180-197
PKX · 45 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
MadridMAD
11 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
DohaDOH
7 h 55 m
€595-787
3 stops
PKX · 45 km
5 h 40 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 5 m
€1,020-1172
2 stops
PEK · 25 km
8 h 30 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBeijingDresden
Official languagePutonghuaGerman
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation43 m126 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingDresden
City population21,893,095564,904
People per km²1,3341,720
Museums within 10 km8370
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre2977

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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.