VacationSelector

Bodrum 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, 2 points apart

Bodrum
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Dresden
48
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration 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.

BodrumDresden
Beaches & swimming. Bodrum leads by 77 points.77
BodrumDresden
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km3022
Coast distance0 km267 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 11 points.11
BodrumDresden
Score5061
Restaurants within 2 km of centre444422
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2042
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 34 points.34
BodrumDresden
Score2054
Museums within 10 km566
Museums within 2 km of centre434
Share of museums within 2 km %8052
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bodrum leads by 3 points.3
BodrumDresden
Score4542
Drinking venues within 4 km418359
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre334265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8074
Nightclubs within 4 km6043
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 20 points.20
BodrumDresden
Score1939
Protected land share 50 km %514
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %35100
Park area within 2 km3 hectares80 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 37 points.37
BodrumDresden
Score2259
Tourist attractions within 2 km1532
Park area within 2 km3 hectares80 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 35 points.35
BodrumDresden
Score1853
Notable places within 2 km1182
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bodrum leads by 29 points.29
BodrumDresden
Score8960
Price level global35.275.9
Daily budget€100€163
Year-round weather. Bodrum leads by 15 points.15
BodrumDresden
Score7762
Monthly daytime high13.8 °C to 31.2 °C4 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 147 mm31 mm to 83 mm
Dry months54
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
Bodrum
14
15
17
20
24
28
31
31
28
24
19
16
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Bodrum
17
16
16
17
19
22
24
25
24
22
20
19
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bodrum
140
96
71
51
25
3
0
0
12
42
103
147
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Daylight, hours per day
Bodrum
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Bodrum
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. Bodrum: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kos Airport (42.7 km from centre). Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBodrumDresden
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€50-55
BJV · 32 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 50 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 35 m
€229-250
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 35 m
no fares
RHO · 91 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
AthensATH
1 h 0 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
2 h 30 m
€132-140
PRG · 112 km
AnkaraESB
1 h 20 m
€54-73
BJV · 32 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
BER · 147 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 20 m
no fares
KGS · 40 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 50 m
€149-173
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 30 m
€190-240
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
1 h 30 m
€61-116
PRG · 112 km
RiyadhRUH
3 h 20 m
€232-255
1 stop
BJV · 32 km
5 h 20 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

MeasureBodrumDresden
Official languageTurkishGerman
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m126 m
Main airportMilas Bodrum International Airport (BJV)32 km from centre82 non-stop destinationsDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBodrumDresden
City population175,000564,904
People per km²3141,720
Museums within 10 km470
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3077
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.