VacationSelector

Dresden or La Spezia?

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 sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

DresdenLa Spezia
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 73 points.73
DresdenLa Spezia
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km2232
Coast distance267 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 30 points.30
DresdenLa Spezia
Score6131
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422235
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4211
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 12 points.12
DresdenLa Spezia
Score5442
Museums within 10 km6615
Museums within 2 km of centre3410
Share of museums within 2 km %5267
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 18 points.18
DresdenLa Spezia
Score4224
Drinking venues within 4 km359208
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265176
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7485
Nightclubs within 4 km431
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 13 points.13
DresdenLa Spezia
Score3952
Protected land share 50 km %1413
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10051
Park area within 2 km80 hectares23 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 39 points.39
DresdenLa Spezia
Score5920
Tourist attractions within 2 km323
Park area within 2 km80 hectares23 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 46 points.46
DresdenLa Spezia
Score537
Notable places within 2 km826
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. La Spezia leads by 8 points.8
DresdenLa Spezia
Score6068
Price level global75.964.9
Daily budget€163€155
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 8 points.8
DresdenLa Spezia
Score6270
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C11.4 °C to 30.3 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm32 mm to 132 mm
Dry months42
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
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenLa Spezia
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
TiranaTIA
2 h 10 m
no fares
BER · 147 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 30 m
€61-116
PRG · 112 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
CataniaCTA
2 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 65 km
PalermoPMO
2 h 15 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 125 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 55 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
PSA · 65 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

MeasureDresdenLa Spezia
Official languageGermanItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation126 m3 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenLa Spezia
City population564,90492,119
People per km²1,7201,792
Museums within 10 km7012
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre7722
Swim season, months above 21 °C–4 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. 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.