VacationSelector

Dresden or Strasbourg?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Dresden
48
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Strasbourg
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

DresdenStrasbourg
Beaches & swimming. Dresden and Strasbourg are level on 0.
DresdenStrasbourg
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km229
Coast distance267 km398 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Strasbourg leads by 6 points.6
DresdenStrasbourg
Score6167
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422780
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4236
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 13 points.13
DresdenStrasbourg
Score5441
Museums within 10 km6623
Museums within 2 km of centre3414
Share of museums within 2 km %5261
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenStrasbourg
Score4236
Drinking venues within 4 km359305
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265264
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7487
Nightclubs within 4 km4317
Nature & day trips. Strasbourg leads by 15 points.15
DresdenStrasbourg
Score3954
Protected land share 50 km %1437
Landscape blanket share 50 km %935
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km80 hectares71 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 21 points.21
DresdenStrasbourg
Score5938
Tourist attractions within 2 km329
Park area within 2 km80 hectares71 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Strasbourg leads by 5 points.5
DresdenStrasbourg
Score5358
Notable places within 2 km82109
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Strasbourg leads by 2 points.2
DresdenStrasbourg
Score6062
Price level global75.973.7
Daily budget€163€160
Year-round weather. Strasbourg leads by 1 points.1
DresdenStrasbourg
Score6263
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C5.2 °C to 26.4 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm34 mm to 77 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
Strasbourg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
22
16
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Strasbourg
35
34
39
42
77
68
72
61
55
59
47
45
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Strasbourg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Strasbourg
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
7
6
3
2
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). Strasbourg: 1991-2020 normals, Strasbourg (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenStrasbourg
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 45 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 30 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
1 h 15 m
€213-254
STR · 109 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
FKB · 33 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SXB · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 137 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 20 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
STR · 109 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
9 h 30 m
no fares
ZRH · 137 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

MeasureDresdenStrasbourg
Official languageGermanFrench
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation126 m132 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsStrasbourg Airport (SXB)10 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenStrasbourg
City population564,904293,771
People per km²1,7203,752
Museums within 10 km7021
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7787

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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. 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.