VacationSelector

Dresden or Paphos?

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, 2 points apart

Dresden
48
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Paphos
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

DresdenPaphos
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
DresdenPaphos
Score079
Swim season months06
Beaches 10 km2227
Coast distance267 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 17 points.17
DresdenPaphos
Score6144
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422251
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4222
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 32 points.32
DresdenPaphos
Score5422
Museums within 10 km668
Museums within 2 km of centre343
Share of museums within 2 km %5238
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 12 points.12
DresdenPaphos
Score4230
Drinking venues within 4 km359224
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265161
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7472
Nightclubs within 4 km4311
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 16 points.16
DresdenPaphos
Score3923
Protected land share 50 km %142
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10033
Park area within 2 km80 hectares27 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 17 points.17
DresdenPaphos
Score5942
Tourist attractions within 2 km3230
Park area within 2 km80 hectares27 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 34 points.34
DresdenPaphos
Score5319
Notable places within 2 km8212
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Paphos leads by 10 points.10
DresdenPaphos
Score6070
Price level global75.961.4
Daily budget€163€129
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 24 points.24
DresdenPaphos
Score6286
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C17 °C to 30.8 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm0 mm to 98 mm
Dry months48
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
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Paphos
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). Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenPaphos
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
4 h 5 m
€253-340
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 55 m
€128-224
1 stop
BER · 147 km
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
3 h 25 m
€125-152
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 0 m
€208-225
1 stop
BER · 147 km
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 107 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 30 m
€61-116
PRG · 112 km
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 8 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 15 m
€138-160
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 8 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

MeasureDresdenPaphos
Official languageGermanTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation126 m72 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenPaphos
City population564,90435,961
People per km²1,7201,987
Museums within 10 km704
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre7736
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.