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Dresden or Ottawa?

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 museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Ottawa
43
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

DresdenOttawa
Beaches & swimming. Dresden and Ottawa are level on 0.
DresdenOttawa
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km229
Coast distance267 km423 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Ottawa leads by 3 points.3
DresdenOttawa
Score6164
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422684
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4234
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 22 points.22
DresdenOttawa
Score5432
Museums within 10 km6615
Museums within 2 km of centre348
Share of museums within 2 km %5253
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Ottawa leads by 2 points.2
DresdenOttawa
Score4244
Drinking venues within 4 km359432
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265303
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7470
Nightclubs within 4 km4335
Nature & day trips. Ottawa leads by 2 points.2
DresdenOttawa
Score3941
Protected land share 50 km %148
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km80 hectares122 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 13 points.13
DresdenOttawa
Score5946
Tourist attractions within 2 km3211
Park area within 2 km80 hectares122 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
DresdenOttawa
Score5350
Notable places within 2 km8271
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenOttawa
Score6054
Price level global75.984
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 9 points.9
DresdenOttawa
Score6253
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C-4.9 °C to 27 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm53 mm to 94 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
Ottawa
-5
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
14
6
-2
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Ottawa
60
53
56
74
66
87
82
89
78
94
59
80
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Ottawa
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Ottawa
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). Ottawa: 1991-2020 normals, Ottawa CDA RCS (5.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenOttawa
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
BER · 147 km
50 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YOW · 12 km
Puerto VallartaPVR
12 h 40 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
5 h 10 m
no fares
YOW · 12 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

MeasureDresdenOttawa
Official languageGermanFrench, English
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation126 m70 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsOttawa Macdonald-Cartier International Airport (YOW)12 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenOttawa
City population564,9041,017,449
People per km²1,720366
Museums within 10 km7020
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7762

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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. 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.