VacationSelector

Dresden or Zagreb?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Dresden
48
match

Wins on good for families and places to eat with your weighting.

Zagreb
47
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife 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.

DresdenZagreb
Beaches & swimming. Dresden and Zagreb are level on 0.
DresdenZagreb
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km228
Coast distance267 km117 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 9 points.9
DresdenZagreb
Score6152
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4227
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 9 points.9
DresdenZagreb
Score5445
Museums within 10 km6641
Museums within 2 km of centre3440
Share of museums within 2 km %5298
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Zagreb leads by 19 points.19
DresdenZagreb
Score4261
Drinking venues within 4 km3591,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7457
Nightclubs within 4 km4363
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 5 points.5
DresdenZagreb
Score3934
Protected land share 50 km %149
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km80 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 31 points.31
DresdenZagreb
Score5928
Tourist attractions within 2 km327
Park area within 2 km80 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Zagreb leads by 7 points.7
DresdenZagreb
Score5360
Notable places within 2 km82122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 20 points.20
DresdenZagreb
Score6080
Price level global75.948.5
Daily budget€163€138
Year-round weather. Dresden and Zagreb are level on 62.
DresdenZagreb
Score6262
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm47 mm to 104 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
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Zagreb
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
Zagreb
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
9
6
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). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenZagreb
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 5 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
1 h 20 m
€52-71
ZAG · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 30 m
€61-116
PRG · 112 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
1 h 5 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DohaDOH
5 h 40 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 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

MeasureDresdenZagreb
Official languageGermanCroatian
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
Elevation126 m127 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenZagreb
City population564,904767,131
People per km²1,720
Museums within 10 km7027
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7742

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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. 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.