VacationSelector

Dresden or Granada?

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 sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Granada
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather 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.

DresdenGranada
Beaches & swimming. Dresden and Granada are level on 0.
DresdenGranada
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km220
Coast distance267 km48 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Granada leads by 6 points.6
DresdenGranada
Score6167
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422872
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4234
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenGranada
Score5448
Museums within 10 km6628
Museums within 2 km of centre3426
Share of museums within 2 km %5293
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Granada leads by 10 points.10
DresdenGranada
Score4252
Drinking venues within 4 km359637
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265494
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7478
Nightclubs within 4 km4346
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 24 points.24
DresdenGranada
Score3963
Protected land share 50 km %1427
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10096
Park area within 2 km80 hectares46 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
DresdenGranada
Score5956
Tourist attractions within 2 km3260
Park area within 2 km80 hectares46 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 9 points.9
DresdenGranada
Score5344
Notable places within 2 km8250
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Granada leads by 11 points.11
DresdenGranada
Score6071
Price level global75.960.8
Daily budget€163€122
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 12 points.12
DresdenGranada
Score6274
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C13.1 °C to 34.8 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm0 mm to 51 mm
Dry months47
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
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Granada
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenGranada
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
2 h 25 m
€61-88
AGP · 97 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
2 h 30 m
€59-73
AGP · 97 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 30 m
€61-116
PRG · 112 km
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
1 h 30 m
€92-138
GRX · 16 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 55 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
1 h 25 m
€58-149
AGP · 97 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

MeasureDresdenGranada
Official languageGermanSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation126 m693 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenGranada
City population564,904233,975
People per km²1,7202,659
Museums within 10 km7019
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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.