VacationSelector

Dresden or Rotterdam?

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 year-round weather and sights concentration with your weighting.

Rotterdam
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

DresdenRotterdam
Beaches & swimming. Rotterdam leads by 37 points.37
DresdenRotterdam
Score037
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2222
Coast distance267 km24 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 11 points.11
DresdenRotterdam
Score6172
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422862
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4246
Museums & heritage. Rotterdam leads by 6 points.6
DresdenRotterdam
Score5460
Museums within 10 km6641
Museums within 2 km of centre3420
Share of museums within 2 km %5249
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 7 points.7
DresdenRotterdam
Score4249
Drinking venues within 4 km359542
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265378
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7470
Nightclubs within 4 km4340
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 3 points.3
DresdenRotterdam
Score3942
Protected land share 50 km %1410
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10079
Park area within 2 km80 hectares61 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 3 points.3
DresdenRotterdam
Score5962
Tourist attractions within 2 km3227
Park area within 2 km80 hectares61 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km28
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 2 points.2
DresdenRotterdam
Score5351
Notable places within 2 km8274
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 2 points.2
DresdenRotterdam
Score6058
Price level global75.979.2
Daily budget€163€181
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenRotterdam
Score6256
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C6.2 °C to 22.1 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenRotterdam
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€66-91
PRG · 112 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 55 m
€91-151
PRG · 112 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 55 m
€128-224
1 stop
BER · 147 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 47 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

MeasureDresdenRotterdam
Official languageGermanDutch
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation126 m10 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenRotterdam
City population564,904664,311
People per km²1,7202,080
Museums within 10 km7040
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre7777
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.