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Skiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine, Deer Valley
Deer ValleySkiers and chairlifts on the slopes in sunshine
The Semperoper, Dresden
DresdenThe Semperoper

Photos: Deer Valley by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Dresden by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Deer Valley or Dresden?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Deer Valley for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Deer Valley’s own page.

Choose Dresden for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Dresden’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Deer Valley and Dresden are level on 10.
Food & drink. Deer Valley 38, Dresden 45: Dresden leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Deer Valley 15, Dresden 79: Dresden leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Deer Valley 25, Dresden 47: Dresden leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Deer Valley 90, Dresden 74: Deer Valley leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Deer Valley 38, Dresden 76: Dresden leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Deer Valley and Dresden are level on 60.
Getting around. Deer Valley 50, Dresden 74: Dresden leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Deer Valley 25, Dresden 42: Dresden leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Deer Valley 4, Dresden 55: Dresden leads by 51 points.
Live music & performing arts. Deer Valley 30, Dresden 76: Dresden leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Deer Valley 52, Dresden 42: Deer Valley leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Deer Valley and Dresden.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Deer Valley
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness with your weighting.

Dresden
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Deer Valley in July

28 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
23 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Dresden in July

26 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Deer Valley's temperatures are measured 82 km from the centre, at Evanston.

Deer Valley's station stands 297 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Deer Valley has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Deer Valley: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Evanston (81.9 km from centre). Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDeer ValleyDresden
Official language-German
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,474 m126 m
Main airportSalt Lake City International Airport (SLC)45 km from centre108 non-stop destinationsDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDeer ValleyDresden
City population-562,764
People per km²-1,713
Museums within 10 km070
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.