VacationSelector

Bologna or Dresden?

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

Your match

Bologna
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Dresden
48
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat 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.

BolognaDresden
Beaches & swimming. Bologna and Dresden are level on 0.
BolognaDresden
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km222
Coast distance74 km267 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
BolognaDresden
Score5861
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822422
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2042
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 13 points.13
BolognaDresden
Score6754
Museums within 10 km5866
Museums within 2 km of centre4334
Share of museums within 2 km %7452
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Bologna leads by 11 points.11
BolognaDresden
Score5342
Drinking venues within 4 km720359
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7474
Nightclubs within 4 km3043
Nature & day trips. Bologna and Dresden are level on 39.
BolognaDresden
Score3939
Protected land share 50 km %714
Landscape blanket share 50 km %19
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km119 hectares80 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 4 points.4
BolognaDresden
Score5559
Tourist attractions within 2 km3232
Park area within 2 km119 hectares80 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 7 points.7
BolognaDresden
Score6053
Notable places within 2 km12082
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bologna leads by 8 points.8
BolognaDresden
Score6860
Price level global64.975.9
Daily budget€155€163
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 5 points.5
BolognaDresden
Score6762
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C4 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 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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M
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J
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D
Daytime high, °C
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
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
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaDresden
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 40 m
€41-45
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 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

MeasureBolognaDresden
Official languageItalianGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation54 m126 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaDresden
City population387,971564,904
People per km²2,7541,720
Museums within 10 km6670
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre6277

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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.