VacationSelector

Dresden or Venice?

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 nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
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.

DresdenVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
DresdenVenice
Score069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km2220
Coast distance267 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 16 points.16
DresdenVenice
Score6145
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4210
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 18 points.18
DresdenVenice
Score5472
Museums within 10 km6657
Museums within 2 km of centre3445
Share of museums within 2 km %5279
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 7 points.7
DresdenVenice
Score4235
Drinking venues within 4 km359342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7489
Nightclubs within 4 km433
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 22 points.22
DresdenVenice
Score3917
Protected land share 50 km %144
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km80 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 2 points.2
DresdenVenice
Score5957
Tourist attractions within 2 km3272
Park area within 2 km80 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 30 points.30
DresdenVenice
Score5383
Notable places within 2 km82464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 8 points.8
DresdenVenice
Score6068
Price level global75.964.9
Daily budget€163€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 4 points.4
DresdenVenice
Score6266
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months42
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenVenice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 7 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

MeasureDresdenVenice
Official languageGermanItalian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation126 m2 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenVenice
City population564,904250,369
People per km²1,720602
Museums within 10 km7052
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre7746
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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.