VacationSelector

Bled or Dresden?

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

Your match

Bled
28
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

Dresden
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on places to eat and good for families with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

BledDresden
Beaches & swimming. Bled and Dresden are level on 0.
BledDresden
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km322
Coast distance76 km267 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 42 points.42
BledDresden
Score1961
Restaurants within 2 km of centre43422
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1342
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 27 points.27
BledDresden
Score2754
Museums within 10 km1666
Museums within 2 km of centre134
Share of museums within 2 km %652
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 40 points.40
BledDresden
Score242
Drinking venues within 4 km43359
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre36265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8474
Nightclubs within 4 km143
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
BledDresden
Score3339
Protected land share 50 km %2014
Landscape blanket share 50 km %29
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km9 hectares80 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 42 points.42
BledDresden
Score1759
Tourist attractions within 2 km732
Park area within 2 km9 hectares80 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 31 points.31
BledDresden
Score2253
Notable places within 2 km1482
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bled leads by 12 points.12
BledDresden
Score7260
Price level global59.675.9
Daily budget€131€163
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 5 points.5
BledDresden
Score5762
Monthly daytime high1.3 °C to 26.7 °C4 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 139 mm31 mm to 83 mm
Dry months24
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
Bled
1
5
12
16
21
25
27
26
21
15
7
1
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Bled
28
35
50
67
86
108
127
139
114
95
93
55
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Daylight, hours per day
Bled
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bled
3
5
6
6
8
8
8
8
6
4
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. Bled: 1991-2020 normals, Klagenfurt (35.5 km from centre). Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBledDresden
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 31 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 5 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 31 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
€184-197
1 stop
LJU · 31 km
1 h 30 m
€61-116
PRG · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
no fares
TRS · 78 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
ViennaVIE
50 m
no fares
GRZ · 123 km
1 h 0 m
€123-212
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 31 km
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
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

MeasureBledDresden
Official languageSloveneGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation501 m126 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)31 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBledDresden
City population4,969564,904
People per km²261,720
Museums within 10 km470
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre1777

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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). 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.