VacationSelector

Dresden or New York?

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 year-round weather with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
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.

DresdenNew York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 64 points.64
DresdenNew York
Score064
Swim season months03
Beaches 10 km2217
Coast distance267 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 34 points.34
DresdenNew York
Score6195
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4226,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4238
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 6 points.6
DresdenNew York
Score5460
Museums within 10 km66119
Museums within 2 km of centre3431
Share of museums within 2 km %5226
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. New York leads by 47 points.47
DresdenNew York
Score4289
Drinking venues within 4 km3594,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2652,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7448
Nightclubs within 4 km43192
Nature & day trips. Dresden and New York are level on 39.
DresdenNew York
Score3939
Protected land share 50 km %144
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10069
Park area within 2 km80 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 13 points.13
DresdenNew York
Score5972
Tourist attractions within 2 km3237
Park area within 2 km80 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. New York leads by 21 points.21
DresdenNew York
Score5374
Notable places within 2 km82268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 17 points.17
DresdenNew York
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 4 points.4
DresdenNew York
Score6258
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
New York
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenNew York
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 5 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 0 m
€208-225
1 stop
BER · 147 km
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 21 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

MeasureDresdenNew York
Official languageGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation126 m25 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenNew York
City population564,9048,804,190
People per km²1,7207,256
Museums within 10 km70157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre77132
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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. 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.