VacationSelector

Cork or Dresden?

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

Your match

Cork
38
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Dresden
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage 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.

CorkDresden
Beaches & swimming. Cork leads by 28 points.28
CorkDresden
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km122
Coast distance3 km267 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 11 points.11
CorkDresden
Score5061
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224422
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3542
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 31 points.31
CorkDresden
Score2354
Museums within 10 km1066
Museums within 2 km of centre834
Share of museums within 2 km %8052
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 4 points.4
CorkDresden
Score3842
Drinking venues within 4 km361359
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8174
Nightclubs within 4 km943
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 13 points.13
CorkDresden
Score5239
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %74100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares80 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 32 points.32
CorkDresden
Score2759
Tourist attractions within 2 km732
Park area within 2 km48 hectares80 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km02
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 31 points.31
CorkDresden
Score2253
Notable places within 2 km1482
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
CorkDresden
Score5760
Price level global80.275.9
Daily budget€187€163
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 13 points.13
CorkDresden
Score4962
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C4 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 mm31 mm to 83 mm
Dry months04
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
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 km from centre). Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCorkDresden
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
MalagaAGP
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 10 m
€130-142
PRG · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
DublinDUB
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 55 m
€128-224
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 2026-08 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

MeasureCorkDresden
Official languageEnglish, IrishGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m126 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkDresden
City population222,333564,904
People per km²5,9611,720
Museums within 10 km570
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre4977
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). 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.