VacationSelector

Dresden or Portland?

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 good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Portland
42
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

DresdenPortland
Beaches & swimming. Dresden and Portland are level on 0.
DresdenPortland
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2227
Coast distance267 km69 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Portland leads by 13 points.13
DresdenPortland
Score6174
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4221,011
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4244
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 19 points.19
DresdenPortland
Score5435
Museums within 10 km6623
Museums within 2 km of centre3415
Share of museums within 2 km %5265
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Portland leads by 16 points.16
DresdenPortland
Score4258
Drinking venues within 4 km359942
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265518
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7455
Nightclubs within 4 km4332
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 4 points.4
DresdenPortland
Score3935
Protected land share 50 km %1413
Landscape blanket share 50 km %93
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km80 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 25 points.25
DresdenPortland
Score5934
Tourist attractions within 2 km328
Park area within 2 km80 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 18 points.18
DresdenPortland
Score5335
Notable places within 2 km8229
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 17 points.17
DresdenPortland
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Portland leads by 3 points.3
DresdenPortland
Score6265
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C7.9 °C to 27.7 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm13 mm to 145 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
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Portland
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
Portland
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). Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenPortland
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
5 h 20 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 5 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
ReykjavikKEF, RKV
3 h 45 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 35 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
PDX · 10 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

MeasureDresdenPortland
Official languageGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation126 m152 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenPortland
City population564,904652,503
People per km²1,7201,736
Museums within 10 km7017
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7782

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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.