VacationSelector

Dresden or Fort Lauderdale?

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

Your match

Dresden
✓ Best match
48
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

DresdenFort Lauderdale
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 84 points.84
DresdenFort Lauderdale
Score084
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km227
Coast distance267 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 16 points.16
DresdenFort Lauderdale
Score6145
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4218
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 34 points.34
DresdenFort Lauderdale
Score5420
Museums within 10 km6614
Museums within 2 km of centre346
Share of museums within 2 km %5243
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 8 points.8
DresdenFort Lauderdale
Score4234
Drinking venues within 4 km359259
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265144
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7456
Nightclubs within 4 km4318
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 42 points.42
DresdenFort Lauderdale
Score3981
Protected land share 50 km %1420
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km80 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 40 points.40
DresdenFort Lauderdale
Score5919
Tourist attractions within 2 km322
Park area within 2 km80 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 53 points.53
DresdenFort Lauderdale
Score530
Notable places within 2 km822
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 17 points.17
DresdenFort Lauderdale
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 14 points.14
DresdenFort Lauderdale
Score6276
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C24.2 °C to 32.3 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm55 mm to 219 mm
Dry months40
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
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenFort Lauderdale
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
FLL · 7 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

MeasureDresdenFort Lauderdale
Official languageGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation126 m11 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenFort Lauderdale
City population564,904182,760
People per km²1,7201,829
Museums within 10 km706
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7725
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.