VacationSelector

Antwerp or Reykjavik?

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

Your match

Antwerp
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Reykjavik
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

AntwerpReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
AntwerpReykjavik
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km133
Coast distance21 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 26 points.26
AntwerpReykjavik
Score7549
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4229
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 19 points.19
AntwerpReykjavik
Score6950
Museums within 10 km4134
Museums within 2 km of centre2723
Share of museums within 2 km %6668
Unesco sites within 50 km91
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 32 points.32
AntwerpReykjavik
Score5927
Drinking venues within 4 km866192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7686
Nightclubs within 4 km7310
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 25 points.25
AntwerpReykjavik
Score3459
Protected land share 50 km %716
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8056
Park area within 2 km53 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Antwerp leads by 4 points.4
AntwerpReykjavik
Score4642
Tourist attractions within 2 km1421
Park area within 2 km53 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Antwerp leads by 6 points.6
AntwerpReykjavik
Score5448
Notable places within 2 km8861
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antwerp leads by 19 points.19
AntwerpReykjavik
Score6041
Price level global76.2102.8
Daily budget€180€243
Year-round weather. Antwerp leads by 21 points.21
AntwerpReykjavik
Score5837
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 mm41 mm to 97 mm
Dry months00
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
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpReykjavik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 35 m
€117-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
4 h 5 m
€222-314
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
4 h 10 m
€224-296
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 36 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
4 h 35 m
€255-375
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 36 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
KEF · 37 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

MeasureAntwerpReykjavik
Official languageFrench, German, DutchIcelandic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m8 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpReykjavik
City population529,247138,772
People per km²2,542569
Museums within 10 km3823
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km91
Distinct cuisines in the centre8042
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.