VacationSelector

Dresden or Stockholm?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

DresdenStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
DresdenStockholm
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2273
Coast distance267 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 15 points.15
DresdenStockholm
Score6176
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4221,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4236
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 15 points.15
DresdenStockholm
Score5469
Museums within 10 km6674
Museums within 2 km of centre3447
Share of museums within 2 km %5264
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Stockholm leads by 22 points.22
DresdenStockholm
Score4264
Drinking venues within 4 km3591,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7463
Nightclubs within 4 km43106
Nature & day trips. Stockholm leads by 2 points.2
DresdenStockholm
Score3941
Protected land share 50 km %147
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10077
Park area within 2 km80 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 2 points.2
DresdenStockholm
Score5957
Tourist attractions within 2 km3223
Park area within 2 km80 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km22
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 26 points.26
DresdenStockholm
Score5379
Notable places within 2 km82357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
DresdenStockholm
Score6057
Price level global75.980.3
Daily budget€163€169
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 9 points.9
DresdenStockholm
Score6253
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months45
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenStockholm
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€66-91
PRG · 112 km
1 h 20 m
€84-99
ARN · 36 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
2 h 40 m
€71-90
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 15 m
€205-234
PRG · 112 km
1 h 10 m
€66-74
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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

MeasureDresdenStockholm
Official languageGermanSwedish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation126 m22 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenStockholm
City population564,904984,748
People per km²1,7205,260
Museums within 10 km70266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre7781
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.