VacationSelector

Dresden or Galway?

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 museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Galway
39
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.

DresdenGalway
Beaches & swimming. Galway leads by 51 points.51
DresdenGalway
Score051
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2213
Coast distance267 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 24 points.24
DresdenGalway
Score6137
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422173
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4220
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 34 points.34
DresdenGalway
Score5420
Museums within 10 km665
Museums within 2 km of centre345
Share of museums within 2 km %52100
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 16 points.16
DresdenGalway
Score4226
Drinking venues within 4 km359185
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265153
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7483
Nightclubs within 4 km438
Nature & day trips. Galway leads by 16 points.16
DresdenGalway
Score3955
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10085
Park area within 2 km80 hectares65 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 34 points.34
DresdenGalway
Score5925
Tourist attractions within 2 km325
Park area within 2 km80 hectares65 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 31 points.31
DresdenGalway
Score5322
Notable places within 2 km8214
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
DresdenGalway
Score6057
Price level global75.980.2
Daily budget€163€187
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 8 points.8
DresdenGalway
Score6254
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C8.9 °C to 19.6 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm63 mm to 113 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
Galway
9
10
11
14
16
19
20
19
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Galway
9
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
15
14
12
10
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Galway
100
87
76
63
63
72
76
89
77
101
104
113
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Galway
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Galway
2
2
4
5
6
5
4
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Galway: 1991-2020 normals, Shannon Airport (64.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenGalway
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
NOC · 73 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
€130-142
PRG · 112 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 5 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 125 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
SNN · 64 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 50 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
SNN · 64 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

MeasureDresdenGalway
Official languageGermanEnglish, Irish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation126 m25 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsShannon Airport (SNN)64 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenGalway
City population564,90483,456
People per km²1,7201,563
Museums within 10 km704
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7725
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. 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. 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.