VacationSelector

Dresden or Nice?

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 good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Nice
✓ Best match
56
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.

DresdenNice
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 73 points.73
DresdenNice
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km2270
Coast distance267 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Nice leads by 8 points.8
DresdenNice
Score6169
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4221,231
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4228
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 8 points.8
DresdenNice
Score5446
Museums within 10 km6627
Museums within 2 km of centre3414
Share of museums within 2 km %5252
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Nice leads by 2 points.2
DresdenNice
Score4244
Drinking venues within 4 km359428
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7491
Nightclubs within 4 km4326
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 18 points.18
DresdenNice
Score3957
Protected land share 50 km %1424
Landscape blanket share 50 km %920
Land share of disc %10062
Park area within 2 km80 hectares56 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 29 points.29
DresdenNice
Score5930
Tourist attractions within 2 km324
Park area within 2 km80 hectares56 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenNice
Score5347
Notable places within 2 km8260
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nice leads by 2 points.2
DresdenNice
Score6062
Price level global75.973.7
Daily budget€163€160
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 12 points.12
DresdenNice
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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Nice
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
Nice
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
Nice
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
Nice
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). Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenNice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
1 h 15 m
€83-135
NCE · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 30 m
€61-116
PRG · 112 km
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 6 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

MeasureDresdenNice
Official languageGermanFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation126 m0 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenNice
City population564,904357,737
People per km²1,7204,975
Museums within 10 km7016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre7765
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. 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.