VacationSelector

Dresden or Inverness?

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 good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Inverness
25
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

DresdenInverness
Beaches & swimming. Inverness leads by 28 points.28
DresdenInverness
Score028
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km221
Coast distance267 km1 km
Water distance—1 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 40 points.40
DresdenInverness
Score6121
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422114
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4211
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 34 points.34
DresdenInverness
Score5420
Museums within 10 km666
Museums within 2 km of centre345
Share of museums within 2 km %5283
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 27 points.27
DresdenInverness
Score4215
Drinking venues within 4 km359113
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre26598
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7487
Nightclubs within 4 km434
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 30 points.30
DresdenInverness
Score399
Protected land share 50 km %1412
Landscape blanket share 50 km %911
Land share of disc %10088
Park area within 2 km80 hectares3 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 59 points.59
DresdenInverness
Score590
Tourist attractions within 2 km323
Park area within 2 km80 hectares3 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 29 points.29
DresdenInverness
Score5324
Notable places within 2 km8216
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenInverness
Score6054
Price level global75.984.9
Daily budget€163—
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 10 points.10
DresdenInverness
Score6252
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C6.6 °C to 18.9 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm40 mm to 72 mm
Dry months41
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
Inverness
7
7
9
12
15
17
19
19
16
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Inverness
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Inverness
50
44
40
42
51
61
60
67
67
72
57
54
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Inverness
7
9
12
14
17
18
17
15
13
10
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Inverness
2
2
4
5
6
5
5
4
4
3
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). Inverness: 1991-2020 normals, Kinloss (43.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenInverness
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
1 h 30 m
€61-96
INV · 12 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
€130-142
PRG · 112 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
RigaRIX
1 h 50 m
€85-127
PRG · 112 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 30 m
€153-209
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 30 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
INV · 12 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 50 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 km
KerkyraCFU
2 h 10 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
ABZ · 126 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

MeasureDresdenInverness
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 m7 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsInverness Airport (INV)12 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenInverness
City population564,90447,380
People per km²1,7202,289
Museums within 10 km703
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7715
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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.