VacationSelector

Belfast or Dresden?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Belfast
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Dresden
48
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

BelfastDresden
Beaches & swimming. Belfast leads by 48 points.48
BelfastDresden
Score480
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1022
Coast distance1 km267 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 5 points.5
BelfastDresden
Score5661
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432422
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3142
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 25 points.25
BelfastDresden
Score2954
Museums within 10 km1866
Museums within 2 km of centre634
Share of museums within 2 km %3352
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 6 points.6
BelfastDresden
Score4842
Drinking venues within 4 km550359
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6374
Nightclubs within 4 km2943
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 14 points.14
BelfastDresden
Score5339
Protected land share 50 km %1914
Landscape blanket share 50 km %139
Land share of disc %65100
Park area within 2 km68 hectares80 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 11 points.11
BelfastDresden
Score4859
Tourist attractions within 2 km1632
Park area within 2 km68 hectares80 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 11 points.11
BelfastDresden
Score4253
Notable places within 2 km4382
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
BelfastDresden
Score5460
Price level global84.975.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 11 points.11
BelfastDresden
Score5162
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C4 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 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
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastDresden
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 0 m
€135-197
BFS · 20 km
3 h 10 m
€130-142
PRG · 112 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 25 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 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 2026-08 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

MeasureBelfastDresden
Official languageEnglishGerman
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m126 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastDresden
City population345,006564,904
People per km²3,0001,720
Museums within 10 km870
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4477
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). 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.