VacationSelector

Dresden or London?

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 value for money with your weighting.

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

DresdenLondon
Beaches & swimming. Dresden and London are level on 0.
DresdenLondon
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2247
Coast distance267 km43 km
Water distance
Places to eat. London leads by 27 points.27
DresdenLondon
Score6188
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4223,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4240
Museums & heritage. London leads by 18 points.18
DresdenLondon
Score5472
Museums within 10 km66148
Museums within 2 km of centre3449
Share of museums within 2 km %5233
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. London leads by 53 points.53
DresdenLondon
Score4295
Drinking venues within 4 km3595,327
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2652,443
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7446
Nightclubs within 4 km43312
Nature & day trips. London leads by 1 points.1
DresdenLondon
Score3940
Protected land share 50 km %1416
Landscape blanket share 50 km %914
Land share of disc %10097
Park area within 2 km80 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 16 points.16
DresdenLondon
Score5975
Tourist attractions within 2 km3285
Park area within 2 km80 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. London leads by 36 points.36
DresdenLondon
Score5389
Notable places within 2 km82649
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenLondon
Score6054
Price level global75.984.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. London leads by 1 points.1
DresdenLondon
Score6263
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C8.2 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm38 mm to 67 mm
Dry months41
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
London
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
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
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). London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenLondon
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
1 h 45 m
€83-138
LGW · 40 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
2 h 0 m
€61-144
LGW · 40 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
€130-142
PRG · 112 km
2 h 35 m
€119-292
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 55 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
3 h 20 m
€128-183
1 stop
LGW · 40 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
LGW · 40 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

MeasureDresdenLondon
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 m4 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenLondon
City population564,9048,799,728
People per km²1,7205,598
Museums within 10 km70215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre77116

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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. 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.