VacationSelector

Dresden or Melbourne?

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 and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Melbourne
✓ Best match
60
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.

DresdenMelbourne
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 55 points.55
DresdenMelbourne
Score055
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2219
Coast distance267 km4 km
Water distance—4 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 14 points.14
DresdenMelbourne
Score6175
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4221,888
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4229
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 5 points.5
DresdenMelbourne
Score5449
Museums within 10 km6642
Museums within 2 km of centre3424
Share of museums within 2 km %5257
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 32 points.32
DresdenMelbourne
Score4274
Drinking venues within 4 km3591,921
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2651,200
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7462
Nightclubs within 4 km43124
Nature & day trips. Melbourne leads by 4 points.4
DresdenMelbourne
Score3943
Protected land share 50 km %146
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10081
Park area within 2 km80 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 1 points.1
DresdenMelbourne
Score5960
Tourist attractions within 2 km3226
Park area within 2 km80 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 4 points.4
DresdenMelbourne
Score5357
Notable places within 2 km82103
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 10 points.10
DresdenMelbourne
Score6050
Price level global75.990.2
Daily budget€163—
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 14 points.14
DresdenMelbourne
Score6276
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C13.6 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm45 mm to 69 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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenMelbourne
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
DohaDOH
5 h 40 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
14 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 45 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
9 h 15 m
€407-480
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
Abu DhabiAUH
5 h 55 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
14 h 20 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
14 h 20 m
€856-961
2 stops
MEL · 19 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

MeasureDresdenMelbourne
Official languageGermanEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number112000
Elevation126 m31 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenMelbourne
City population564,9045,350,705
People per km²1,720535
Museums within 10 km7042
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7786
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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.