VacationSelector

Dresden or Ljubljana?

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, 1 point apart

Dresden
48
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Ljubljana
47
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration 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.

DresdenLjubljana
Beaches & swimming. Dresden and Ljubljana are level on 0.
DresdenLjubljana
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2210
Coast distance267 km72 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenLjubljana
Score6155
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422292
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4240
Museums & heritage. Ljubljana leads by 1 points.1
DresdenLjubljana
Score5455
Museums within 10 km6626
Museums within 2 km of centre3423
Share of museums within 2 km %5288
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Ljubljana leads by 3 points.3
DresdenLjubljana
Score4245
Drinking venues within 4 km359458
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265284
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7462
Nightclubs within 4 km4324
Nature & day trips. Ljubljana leads by 1 points.1
DresdenLjubljana
Score3940
Protected land share 50 km %1413
Landscape blanket share 50 km %95
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km80 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 21 points.21
DresdenLjubljana
Score5938
Tourist attractions within 2 km3212
Park area within 2 km80 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Ljubljana leads by 5 points.5
DresdenLjubljana
Score5358
Notable places within 2 km82109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ljubljana leads by 12 points.12
DresdenLjubljana
Score6072
Price level global75.959.6
Daily budget€163€131
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenLjubljana
Score6256
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C4.1 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm67 mm to 159 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
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Ljubljana
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
8
6
4
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). Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenLjubljana
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
DubrovnikDBV
1 h 45 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 5 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 20 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 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 2026-09 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

MeasureDresdenLjubljana
Official languageGermanSlovene
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation126 m309 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenLjubljana
City population564,904284,293
People per km²1,7201,736
Museums within 10 km7014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre7763

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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. 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.