VacationSelector

Dresden or Florence?

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

Your match

Dresden
48
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Florence
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

DresdenFlorence
Beaches & swimming. Dresden and Florence are level on 0.
DresdenFlorence
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km220
Coast distance267 km78 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 2 points.2
DresdenFlorence
Score6159
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4221,299
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4215
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 28 points.28
DresdenFlorence
Score5482
Museums within 10 km66132
Museums within 2 km of centre3493
Share of museums within 2 km %5270
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Florence leads by 14 points.14
DresdenFlorence
Score4256
Drinking venues within 4 km359818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265599
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7473
Nightclubs within 4 km4334
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 1 points.1
DresdenFlorence
Score3938
Protected land share 50 km %149
Landscape blanket share 50 km %92
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km80 hectares86 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 7 points.7
DresdenFlorence
Score5952
Tourist attractions within 2 km3230
Park area within 2 km80 hectares86 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 22 points.22
DresdenFlorence
Score5375
Notable places within 2 km82292
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 8 points.8
DresdenFlorence
Score6068
Price level global75.964.9
Daily budget€163€155
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 6 points.6
DresdenFlorence
Score6268
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C10.8 °C to 32.7 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months42
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenFlorence
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BER · 147 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
EBA · 139 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 5 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 55 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 70 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

MeasureDresdenFlorence
Official languageGermanItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation126 m50 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenFlorence
City population564,904360,930
People per km²1,7203,528
Museums within 10 km70140
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre7762

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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). 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.