VacationSelector

Dresden or The Hague?

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 good for families with your weighting.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and 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.

DresdenThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. The Hague leads by 60 points.60
DresdenThe Hague
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2234
Coast distance267 km3 km
Water distance—3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 9 points.9
DresdenThe Hague
Score6170
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4243
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 8 points.8
DresdenThe Hague
Score5462
Museums within 10 km6646
Museums within 2 km of centre3426
Share of museums within 2 km %5257
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. The Hague leads by 4 points.4
DresdenThe Hague
Score4246
Drinking venues within 4 km359511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7456
Nightclubs within 4 km4319
Nature & day trips. The Hague leads by 15 points.15
DresdenThe Hague
Score3954
Protected land share 50 km %148
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km80 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
DresdenThe Hague
Score5956
Tourist attractions within 2 km3210
Park area within 2 km80 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km27
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 1 points.1
DresdenThe Hague
Score5354
Notable places within 2 km8286
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 2 points.2
DresdenThe Hague
Score6058
Price level global75.979.2
Daily budget€163€181
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 8 points.8
DresdenThe Hague
Score6254
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °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
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
The Hague
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
The Hague
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
The Hague
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
The Hague
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). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

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

MeasureDresdenThe Hague
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 m1 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenThe Hague
City population564,904548,320
People per km²1,7205,589
Museums within 10 km7054
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre7777
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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.