VacationSelector

Dresden or York?

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 sights concentration with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

DresdenYork
Beaches & swimming. Dresden and York are level on 0.
DresdenYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km222
Coast distance267 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 7 points.7
DresdenYork
Score6154
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4231
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 8 points.8
DresdenYork
Score5446
Museums within 10 km6618
Museums within 2 km of centre3416
Share of museums within 2 km %5289
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. York leads by 1 points.1
DresdenYork
Score4243
Drinking venues within 4 km359450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7478
Nightclubs within 4 km4314
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenYork
Score3933
Protected land share 50 km %1417
Landscape blanket share 50 km %916
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km80 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 16 points.16
DresdenYork
Score5943
Tourist attractions within 2 km3213
Park area within 2 km80 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km23
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 14 points.14
DresdenYork
Score5339
Notable places within 2 km8237
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenYork
Score6054
Price level global75.984.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 6 points.6
DresdenYork
Score6256
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm39 mm to 66 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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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
2
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenYork
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
€130-142
PRG · 112 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AgadirAGA
4 h 10 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureDresdenYork
Official languageGermanEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation126 m25 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenYork
City population564,904208,400
People per km²1,720766
Museums within 10 km7024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre7754

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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.