VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Dresden?

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

Your match

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Dresden
48
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

CopenhagenDresden
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 54 points.54
CopenhagenDresden
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1722
Coast distance1 km267 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 12 points.12
CopenhagenDresden
Score7361
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183422
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3742
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 21 points.21
CopenhagenDresden
Score7554
Museums within 10 km8366
Museums within 2 km of centre5134
Share of museums within 2 km %6152
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 25 points.25
CopenhagenDresden
Score6742
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384359
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5874
Nightclubs within 4 km6443
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 11 points.11
CopenhagenDresden
Score5039
Protected land share 50 km %514
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %39100
Park area within 2 km138 hectares80 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 12 points.12
CopenhagenDresden
Score7159
Tourist attractions within 2 km5432
Park area within 2 km138 hectares80 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 21 points.21
CopenhagenDresden
Score7453
Notable places within 2 km27382
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 8 points.8
CopenhagenDresden
Score5260
Price level global87.875.9
Daily budget€214€163
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 7 points.7
CopenhagenDresden
Score5562
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C4 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm31 mm to 83 mm
Dry months34
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
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
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. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenDresden
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€78-118
CPH · 8 km
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€195-237
CPH · 8 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 30 m
€127-182
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
2 h 0 m
€141-201
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
DohaDOH
6 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
5 h 40 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 50 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
10 h 45 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

MeasureCopenhagenDresden
Official languageDanishGerman
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m126 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenDresden
City population667,099564,904
People per km²7,3391,720
Museums within 10 km7270
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre8277
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.