VacationSelector

Bucharest or Dresden?

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

Your match

Bucharest
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Dresden
48
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips 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.

BucharestDresden
Beaches & swimming. Bucharest and Dresden are level on 0.
BucharestDresden
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km322
Coast distance198 km267 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 6 points.6
BucharestDresden
Score6761
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667422
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4142
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 5 points.5
BucharestDresden
Score4954
Museums within 10 km7366
Museums within 2 km of centre4034
Share of museums within 2 km %5552
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 20 points.20
BucharestDresden
Score6242
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017359
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5374
Nightclubs within 4 km8043
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
BucharestDresden
Score3639
Protected land share 50 km %414
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km133 hectares80 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 9 points.9
BucharestDresden
Score6859
Tourist attractions within 2 km4532
Park area within 2 km133 hectares80 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 8 points.8
BucharestDresden
Score6153
Notable places within 2 km13082
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 25 points.25
BucharestDresden
Score8560
Price level global40.975.9
Daily budget€99€163
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 1 points.1
BucharestDresden
Score6362
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C4 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm31 mm to 83 mm
Dry months14
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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A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
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
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
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. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestDresden
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
3 h 0 m
€92-102
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€82-113
OTP · 18 km
1 h 30 m
€61-116
PRG · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 30 m
€144-199
OTP · 18 km
4 h 0 m
€208-225
1 stop
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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureBucharestDresden
Official languageRomanianGerman
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m126 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestDresden
City population1,716,961564,904
People per km²7,5971,720
Museums within 10 km4170
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6877

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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). 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.