VacationSelector

Dresden or Limassol?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Dresden
48
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Limassol
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

DresdenLimassol
Beaches & swimming. Limassol leads by 79 points.79
DresdenLimassol
Score079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km2227
Coast distance267 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 18 points.18
DresdenLimassol
Score6143
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422298
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4219
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 10 points.10
DresdenLimassol
Score5444
Museums within 10 km6617
Museums within 2 km of centre3410
Share of museums within 2 km %5259
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
DresdenLimassol
Score4239
Drinking venues within 4 km359340
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265256
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7475
Nightclubs within 4 km4320
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 17 points.17
DresdenLimassol
Score3922
Protected land share 50 km %142
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10049
Park area within 2 km80 hectares32 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 43 points.43
DresdenLimassol
Score5916
Tourist attractions within 2 km323
Park area within 2 km80 hectares32 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 39 points.39
DresdenLimassol
Score5314
Notable places within 2 km829
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Limassol leads by 10 points.10
DresdenLimassol
Score6070
Price level global75.961.4
Daily budget€163€129
Year-round weather. Limassol leads by 23 points.23
DresdenLimassol
Score6285
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C16.5 °C to 31.2 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months48
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
Limassol
17
17
19
22
25
29
31
31
30
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Limassol
18
17
17
18
20
23
26
27
26
25
22
20
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Limassol
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Limassol
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Limassol
6
6
8
9
11
12
13
12
10
9
7
6

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Limassol: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Akrotiri (11.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenLimassol
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 51 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 55 m
€128-224
1 stop
BER · 147 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 51 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 51 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 0 m
€208-225
1 stop
BER · 147 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 51 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 68 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 30 m
€61-116
PRG · 112 km
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 51 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 15 m
€138-160
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 51 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

MeasureDresdenLimassol
Official languageGermanTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation126 m10 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsLarnaca International Airport (LCA)58 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenLimassol
City population564,904107,970
People per km²1,7202,405
Museums within 10 km702
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre7728
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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. 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. 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.