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Dresden or Maastricht?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Maastricht
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

DresdenMaastricht
Beaches & swimming. Dresden and Maastricht are level on 0.
DresdenMaastricht
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km226
Coast distance267 km118 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 13 points.13
DresdenMaastricht
Score6148
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422338
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4222
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 1 points.1
DresdenMaastricht
Score5453
Museums within 10 km6623
Museums within 2 km of centre3413
Share of museums within 2 km %5257
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 12 points.12
DresdenMaastricht
Score4230
Drinking venues within 4 km359223
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265182
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7482
Nightclubs within 4 km4313
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 2 points.2
DresdenMaastricht
Score3937
Protected land share 50 km %1419
Landscape blanket share 50 km %911
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km80 hectares33 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 13 points.13
DresdenMaastricht
Score5946
Tourist attractions within 2 km3215
Park area within 2 km80 hectares33 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 17 points.17
DresdenMaastricht
Score5336
Notable places within 2 km8232
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 2 points.2
DresdenMaastricht
Score6058
Price level global75.979.2
Daily budget€163€181
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
DresdenMaastricht
Score6259
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C5.7 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm41 mm to 84 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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Daytime high, °C
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
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). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenMaastricht
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
2 h 0 m
€148-192
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 15 m
€138-160
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
1 h 55 m
€123-157
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
MarrakechRAK
3 h 55 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
EIN · 70 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

MeasureDresdenMaastricht
Official languageGermanDutch
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 or 911
Elevation126 m49 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenMaastricht
City population564,904120,227
People per km²1,7202,000
Museums within 10 km7021
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre7733

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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.