VacationSelector

Dresden or Quebec City?

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 year-round weather and nightlife with your weighting.

Quebec City
41
match

Wins on 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.

DresdenQuebec City
Beaches & swimming. Dresden and Quebec City are level on 0.
DresdenQuebec City
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km229
Coast distance267 km47 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenQuebec City
Score6155
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422387
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4231
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 8 points.8
DresdenQuebec City
Score5446
Museums within 10 km6626
Museums within 2 km of centre3419
Share of museums within 2 km %5273
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 11 points.11
DresdenQuebec City
Score4231
Drinking venues within 4 km359250
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265195
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7478
Nightclubs within 4 km438
Nature & day trips. Quebec City leads by 4 points.4
DresdenQuebec City
Score3943
Protected land share 50 km %147
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km80 hectares172 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 9 points.9
DresdenQuebec City
Score5950
Tourist attractions within 2 km3212
Park area within 2 km80 hectares172 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 10 points.10
DresdenQuebec City
Score5343
Notable places within 2 km8247
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenQuebec City
Score6054
Price level global75.984
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 16 points.16
DresdenQuebec City
Score6246
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C-5.7 °C to 25.3 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm79 mm to 123 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
Quebec City
-6
-4
1
9
17
22
25
25
20
12
6
-2
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Quebec City
79
87
82
106
89
118
119
103
115
123
96
109
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Quebec City
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Quebec City
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). Quebec City: 1991-2020 normals, Beauport (3.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromDresdenQuebec City
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 45 m
no fares
BER · 147 km
55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
6 h 55 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
Puerto VallartaPVR
12 h 40 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
NantesNTE
2 h 5 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
6 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
MarseilleMRS
1 h 50 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
YQB · 13 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 35 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
YQB · 13 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

MeasureDresdenQuebec City
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 m98 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsQuebec Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)13 km from centre31 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenQuebec City
City population564,904574,482
People per km²1,7201,184
Museums within 10 km7016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7747

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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.