VacationSelector

Dresden or Glasgow?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Dresden
48
match

Wins on year-round weather and good for families with your weighting.

Glasgow
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

DresdenGlasgow
Beaches & swimming. Glasgow leads by 36 points.36
DresdenGlasgow
Score036
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km223
Coast distance267 km3 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Glasgow leads by 2 points.2
DresdenGlasgow
Score6163
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422740
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4229
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 9 points.9
DresdenGlasgow
Score5445
Museums within 10 km6632
Museums within 2 km of centre3413
Share of museums within 2 km %5241
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 21 points.21
DresdenGlasgow
Score4263
Drinking venues within 4 km3591,078
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265654
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7461
Nightclubs within 4 km4373
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 1 points.1
DresdenGlasgow
Score3938
Protected land share 50 km %1416
Landscape blanket share 50 km %912
Land share of disc %10091
Park area within 2 km80 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 18 points.18
DresdenGlasgow
Score5941
Tourist attractions within 2 km3213
Park area within 2 km80 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Dresden and Glasgow are level on 53.
DresdenGlasgow
Score5353
Notable places within 2 km8280
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenGlasgow
Score6054
Price level global75.984.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 19 points.19
DresdenGlasgow
Score6243
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm102 mm to 207 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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A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenGlasgow
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
€130-142
PRG · 112 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 56 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 30 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 55 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
GLA · 11 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

MeasureDresdenGlasgow
Official languageGermanEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation126 m21 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenGlasgow
City population564,904626,410
People per km²1,720190
Museums within 10 km7029
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre7754
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.