VacationSelector

Dresden or Tampa?

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 sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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.

DresdenTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 75 points.75
DresdenTampa
Score075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km2210
Coast distance267 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 7 points.7
DresdenTampa
Score6154
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4231
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 27 points.27
DresdenTampa
Score5427
Museums within 10 km6613
Museums within 2 km of centre3410
Share of museums within 2 km %5277
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
DresdenTampa
Score4239
Drinking venues within 4 km359324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7470
Nightclubs within 4 km4326
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 9 points.9
DresdenTampa
Score3930
Protected land share 50 km %146
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10072
Park area within 2 km80 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 29 points.29
DresdenTampa
Score5930
Tourist attractions within 2 km323
Park area within 2 km80 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 32 points.32
DresdenTampa
Score5321
Notable places within 2 km8213
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 17 points.17
DresdenTampa
Score6043
Price level global75.9100
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 13 points.13
DresdenTampa
Score6275
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months41
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenTampa
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
PhiladelphiaPHL, TTN
8 h 35 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
2 h 25 m
€95-125
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 5 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
8 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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

MeasureDresdenTampa
Official languageGerman
CurrencyEuro (EUR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation126 m30 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenTampa
City population564,904384,959
People per km²1,720848
Museums within 10 km706
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7747
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months

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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. 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.