VacationSelector

Dresden or Warsaw?

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 with your weighting.

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

DresdenWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Dresden and Warsaw are level on 0.
DresdenWarsaw
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2226
Coast distance267 km238 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 11 points.11
DresdenWarsaw
Score6172
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4221,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4234
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 9 points.9
DresdenWarsaw
Score5463
Museums within 10 km66107
Museums within 2 km of centre3460
Share of museums within 2 km %5256
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 20 points.20
DresdenWarsaw
Score4262
Drinking venues within 4 km3591,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7464
Nightclubs within 4 km43104
Nature & day trips. Warsaw leads by 16 points.16
DresdenWarsaw
Score3955
Protected land share 50 km %1427
Landscape blanket share 50 km %919
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km80 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 11 points.11
DresdenWarsaw
Score5970
Tourist attractions within 2 km3242
Park area within 2 km80 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km25
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 23 points.23
DresdenWarsaw
Score5376
Notable places within 2 km82299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 19 points.19
DresdenWarsaw
Score6079
Price level global75.949
Daily budget€163€133
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
DresdenWarsaw
Score6259
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months46
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Warsaw
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
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
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). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenWarsaw
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
5 h 35 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
WAW · 8 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

MeasureDresdenWarsaw
Official languageGermanPolish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation126 m118 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenWarsaw
City population564,9041,862,402
People per km²1,7203,601
Museums within 10 km70117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7776

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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. 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.