VacationSelector

Dresden or Izmir?

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 good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Izmir
✓ Best match
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

DresdenIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 55 points.55
DresdenIzmir
Score055
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km224
Coast distance267 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 12 points.12
DresdenIzmir
Score6149
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4212
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 11 points.11
DresdenIzmir
Score5443
Museums within 10 km6647
Museums within 2 km of centre3427
Share of museums within 2 km %5257
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Izmir leads by 20 points.20
DresdenIzmir
Score4262
Drinking venues within 4 km3591,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7468
Nightclubs within 4 km4370
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 10 points.10
DresdenIzmir
Score3929
Protected land share 50 km %144
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10084
Park area within 2 km80 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 24 points.24
DresdenIzmir
Score5935
Tourist attractions within 2 km326
Park area within 2 km80 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 13 points.13
DresdenIzmir
Score5340
Notable places within 2 km8239
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 29 points.29
DresdenIzmir
Score6089
Price level global75.935.2
Daily budget€163€100
Year-round weather. Izmir leads by 10 points.10
DresdenIzmir
Score6272
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months45
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
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
AnkaraESB
3 h 0 m
no fares
BER · 147 km
1 h 20 m
€54-66
ADB · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 5 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
BakuGYD
4 h 10 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
3 h 0 m
€237-313
ADB · 13 km
TashkentTAS
5 h 50 m
no fares
KLV · 111 km
4 h 55 m
€319-343
1 stop
ADB · 13 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

MeasureDresdenIzmir
Official languageGermanTurkish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+3
Emergency number112112
Elevation126 m2 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenIzmir
City population564,9044,493,242
People per km²1,7204,760
Museums within 10 km7029
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7720
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.