VacationSelector

Dresden or Liverpool?

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 museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Liverpool
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

DresdenLiverpool
Beaches & swimming. Liverpool leads by 60 points.60
DresdenLiverpool
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2234
Coast distance267 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 1 points.1
DresdenLiverpool
Score6160
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422542
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4232
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 11 points.11
DresdenLiverpool
Score5443
Museums within 10 km6623
Museums within 2 km of centre3412
Share of museums within 2 km %5252
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Liverpool leads by 19 points.19
DresdenLiverpool
Score4261
Drinking venues within 4 km359977
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265651
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7467
Nightclubs within 4 km4379
Nature & day trips. Liverpool leads by 19 points.19
DresdenLiverpool
Score3958
Protected land share 50 km %14
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10060
Park area within 2 km80 hectares81 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 1 points.1
DresdenLiverpool
Score5958
Tourist attractions within 2 km3225
Park area within 2 km80 hectares81 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
DresdenLiverpool
Score5350
Notable places within 2 km8268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenLiverpool
Score6054
Price level global75.984.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 8 points.8
DresdenLiverpool
Score6254
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C7.2 °C to 20.8 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm51 mm to 95 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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D
Daytime high, °C
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Liverpool
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Liverpool
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Liverpool
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Liverpool
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Liverpool
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenLiverpool
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
€130-142
PRG · 112 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 55 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 48 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

MeasureDresdenLiverpool
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 m70 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre74 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenLiverpool
City population564,904513,441
People per km²1,7204,592
Museums within 10 km7031
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre7749
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. 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.