VacationSelector

Atlanta or Reykjavik?

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

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife with your weighting.

Reykjavik
✓ Best match
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.

AtlantaReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
AtlantaReykjavik
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km033
Coast distance373 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Atlanta leads by 10 points.10
AtlantaReykjavik
Score5949
Restaurants within 2 km of centre739261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2329
Museums & heritage. Reykjavik leads by 15 points.15
AtlantaReykjavik
Score3550
Museums within 10 km4134
Museums within 2 km of centre1623
Share of museums within 2 km %3968
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Atlanta leads by 22 points.22
AtlantaReykjavik
Score4927
Drinking venues within 4 km531192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5386
Nightclubs within 4 km4610
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 28 points.28
AtlantaReykjavik
Score3159
Protected land share 50 km %116
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km113 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 10 points.10
AtlantaReykjavik
Score3242
Tourist attractions within 2 km221
Park area within 2 km113 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 8 points.8
AtlantaReykjavik
Score4048
Notable places within 2 km3961
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Atlanta leads by 2 points.2
AtlantaReykjavik
Score4341
Price level global100102.8
Daily budget€243
Year-round weather. Atlanta leads by 30 points.30
AtlantaReykjavik
Score6737
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
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. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaReykjavik
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 40 m
€84-125
ATL · 14 km
5 h 55 m
€406-422
KEF · 37 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 50 m
€161-221
ATL · 14 km
6 h 15 m
€415-534
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
9 h 20 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
BostonBOS, PSM
2 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 5 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
5 h 35 m
€426-480
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
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 2026-09 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

MeasureAtlantaReykjavik
Official languageIcelandic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC
Emergency number911112
Elevation225 m8 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaReykjavik
City population498,715138,772
People per km²1,433569
Museums within 10 km2723
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre5642
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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.