Bucharest or Dresden?
Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.
Your match
Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.
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.
Beaches & swimming. Bucharest and Dresden are level on 0.
| Bucharest | Dresden | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 0 | 0 |
| Swim season months | 0 | 0 |
| Beaches 10 km | 3 | 22 |
| Coast distance | 198 km | 267 km |
| Water distance | — | — |
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 6 points.6
| Bucharest | Dresden | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 67 | 61 |
| Restaurants within 2 km of centre | 667 | 422 |
| Effective number of cuisines within 2 km | 41 | 42 |
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 5 points.5
| Bucharest | Dresden | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 49 | 54 |
| Museums within 10 km | 73 | 66 |
| Museums within 2 km of centre | 40 | 34 |
| Share of museums within 2 km % | 55 | 52 |
| Unesco sites within 50 km | 0 | 1 |
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 20 points.20
| Bucharest | Dresden | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 62 | 42 |
| Drinking venues within 4 km | 1,017 | 359 |
| Drinking venues within 2 km of centre | 541 | 265 |
| Share of drinking venues within 2 km % | 53 | 74 |
| Nightclubs within 4 km | 80 | 43 |
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
| Bucharest | Dresden | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 36 | 39 |
| Protected land share 50 km % | 4 | 14 |
| Landscape blanket share 50 km % | 0 | 9 |
| Land share of disc % | 100 | 100 |
| Park area within 2 km | 133 hectares | 80 hectares |
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 9 points.9
| Bucharest | Dresden | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 68 | 59 |
| Tourist attractions within 2 km | 45 | 32 |
| Park area within 2 km | 133 hectares | 80 hectares |
| Theme parks within 30 km | 2 | 2 |
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 8 points.8
| Bucharest | Dresden | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 61 | 53 |
| Notable places within 2 km | 130 | 82 |
| Min wikipedia languages | 5 | 5 |
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 25 points.25
| Bucharest | Dresden | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 85 | 60 |
| Price level global | 40.9 | 75.9 |
| Daily budget | €99 | €163 |
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 1 points.1
| Bucharest | Dresden | |
|---|---|---|
| Score | 63 | 62 |
| Monthly daytime high | 2.8 °C to 30.5 °C | 4 °C to 26.2 °C |
| Monthly rainfall | 33 mm to 82 mm | 31 mm to 83 mm |
| Dry months | 1 | 4 |
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.
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).
Getting there
| Flying from | Bucharest | Dresden |
|---|---|---|
| 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
| Measure | Bucharest | Dresden |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | Romanian | German |
| Currency | Romanian Leu (RON) | Euro (EUR) |
| Sockets | CF230 V, 50 Hz | CF230 V, 50 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer | UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer |
| Emergency number | 112 | 112 |
| Elevation | 70 m | 126 m |
| Main airport | Bucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinations | Dresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | 17 days | 11 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Bucharest | Dresden |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 1,716,961 | 564,904 |
| People per km² | 7,597 | 1,720 |
| Museums within 10 km | 41 | 70 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 0 | 1 |
| Distinct cuisines in the centre | 68 | 77 |
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