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Dresden or Philadelphia?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Philadelphia
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

DresdenPhiladelphia
Beaches & swimming. Dresden and Philadelphia are level on 0.
DresdenPhiladelphia
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km221
Coast distance267 km13 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 16 points.16
DresdenPhiladelphia
Score6177
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4221,714
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4235
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 6 points.6
DresdenPhiladelphia
Score5460
Museums within 10 km6689
Museums within 2 km of centre3448
Share of museums within 2 km %5254
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 17 points.17
DresdenPhiladelphia
Score4259
Drinking venues within 4 km359930
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265575
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7462
Nightclubs within 4 km4341
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 10 points.10
DresdenPhiladelphia
Score3949
Protected land share 50 km %1414
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10089
Park area within 2 km80 hectares75 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenPhiladelphia
Score5953
Tourist attractions within 2 km3216
Park area within 2 km80 hectares75 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km24
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 1 points.1
DresdenPhiladelphia
Score5354
Notable places within 2 km8288
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 17 points.17
DresdenPhiladelphia
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 2 points.2
DresdenPhiladelphia
Score6260
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C5.2 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm69 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Philadelphia
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
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
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). Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenPhiladelphia
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 km
13 h 35 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
DohaDOH
5 h 40 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
13 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 11 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

MeasureDresdenPhiladelphia
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 m12 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenPhiladelphia
City population564,9041,603,797
People per km²1,7204,339
Museums within 10 km7054
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7775

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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.