VacationSelector

Dresden or Killarney?

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 museums & heritage with your weighting.

Killarney
21
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.

DresdenKillarney
Beaches & swimming. Killarney leads by 23 points.23
DresdenKillarney
Score023
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km226
Coast distance267 km18 km
Water distance18 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 39 points.39
DresdenKillarney
Score6122
Restaurants within 2 km of centre42265
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4215
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 44 points.44
DresdenKillarney
Score5410
Museums within 10 km660
Museums within 2 km of centre340
Share of museums within 2 km %52
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 39 points.39
DresdenKillarney
Score423
Drinking venues within 4 km35972
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre26557
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7479
Nightclubs within 4 km430
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 30 points.30
DresdenKillarney
Score399
Protected land share 50 km %141
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10086
Park area within 2 km80 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 51 points.51
DresdenKillarney
Score598
Tourist attractions within 2 km324
Park area within 2 km80 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 43 points.43
DresdenKillarney
Score5310
Notable places within 2 km827
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
DresdenKillarney
Score6057
Price level global75.980.2
Daily budget€163€187
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 14 points.14
DresdenKillarney
Score6248
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C9.9 °C to 18 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm91 mm to 187 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
Killarney
10
10
11
13
15
17
18
18
17
14
12
10
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Killarney
10
10
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
12
11
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Killarney
178
135
113
106
91
99
115
114
125
175
187
178
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Killarney
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
Killarney
2
2
3
5
6
6
4
5
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). Killarney: 1991-2020 normals, Valentia Observatory (52.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenKillarney
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
6 h 30 m
no fares
SNN · 82 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
€130-142
PRG · 112 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
KIR · 14 km
EdinburghEDI
2 h 0 m
no fares
BER · 147 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 74 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

MeasureDresdenKillarney
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 m50 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsKerry Airport (KIR)14 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenKillarney
City population564,90414,412
People per km²1,720
Museums within 10 km701
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7719
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.