VacationSelector

Dresden or Monaco?

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, level with your weighting

Dresden
48
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Monaco
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

DresdenMonaco
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 73 points.73
DresdenMonaco
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km2250
Coast distance267 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 22 points.22
DresdenMonaco
Score6139
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422269
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4216
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 16 points.16
DresdenMonaco
Score5438
Museums within 10 km6623
Museums within 2 km of centre348
Share of museums within 2 km %5235
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 34 points.34
DresdenMonaco
Score428
Drinking venues within 4 km35969
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre26563
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7491
Nightclubs within 4 km437
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 14 points.14
DresdenMonaco
Score3953
Protected land share 50 km %1424
Landscape blanket share 50 km %917
Land share of disc %10054
Park area within 2 km80 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 24 points.24
DresdenMonaco
Score5935
Tourist attractions within 2 km3214
Park area within 2 km80 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 11 points.11
DresdenMonaco
Score5364
Notable places within 2 km82154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Monaco leads by 12 points.12
DresdenMonaco
Score6274
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C13.3 °C to 27.9 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm13 mm to 138 mm
Dry months43
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
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenMonaco
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 30 m
€61-116
PRG · 112 km
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 18 km
TunisTUN
2 h 45 m
no fares
BER · 147 km
1 h 35 m
€148-281
NCE · 18 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

MeasureDresdenMonaco
Official languageGermanFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCEF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation126 m68 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenMonaco
City population564,90438,857
People per km²1,72018,503
Museums within 10 km7014
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre7729
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.