VacationSelector

Dresden or Tromso?

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 good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

DresdenTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 52 points.52
DresdenTromso
Score052
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2214
Coast distance267 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 37 points.37
DresdenTromso
Score6124
Restaurants within 2 km of centre42285
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4216
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 31 points.31
DresdenTromso
Score5423
Museums within 10 km6610
Museums within 2 km of centre348
Share of museums within 2 km %5280
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 35 points.35
DresdenTromso
Score427
Drinking venues within 4 km35967
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre26561
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7491
Nightclubs within 4 km435
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 28 points.28
DresdenTromso
Score3911
Protected land share 50 km %149
Landscape blanket share 50 km %99
Land share of disc %10065
Park area within 2 km80 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 45 points.45
DresdenTromso
Score5914
Tourist attractions within 2 km329
Park area within 2 km80 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 25 points.25
DresdenTromso
Score5328
Notable places within 2 km8220
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenTromso
Score6054
Price level global75.985.1
Daily budget€163€203
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 29 points.29
DresdenTromso
Score6233
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm56 mm to 128 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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D
Daytime high, °C
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenTromso
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€66-91
PRG · 112 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 15 m
€205-234
PRG · 112 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 55 m
€91-151
PRG · 112 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 5 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 20 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 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

MeasureDresdenTromso
Official languageGermanNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation126 m20 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenTromso
City population564,90479,943
People per km²1,72032
Museums within 10 km708
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7723
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. 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.