VacationSelector

Bath or Reykjavik?

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

Your match

Bath
40
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money with your weighting.

Reykjavik
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

BathReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 52 points.52
BathReykjavik
Score860
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km133
Coast distance29 km0 km
Water distance29 km0 km
Places to eat. Reykjavik leads by 3 points.3
BathReykjavik
Score4649
Restaurants within 2 km of centre245261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2629
Museums & heritage. Reykjavik leads by 3 points.3
BathReykjavik
Score4750
Museums within 10 km2034
Museums within 2 km of centre1423
Share of museums within 2 km %7068
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Bath leads by 9 points.9
BathReykjavik
Score3627
Drinking venues within 4 km320192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre240166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7586
Nightclubs within 4 km1110
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 15 points.15
BathReykjavik
Score4459
Protected land share 50 km %2816
Landscape blanket share 50 km %270
Land share of disc %9256
Park area within 2 km45 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 2 points.2
BathReykjavik
Score4042
Tourist attractions within 2 km1421
Park area within 2 km45 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 16 points.16
BathReykjavik
Score3248
Notable places within 2 km2561
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bath leads by 13 points.13
BathReykjavik
Score5441
Price level global84.9102.8
Daily budget€243
Year-round weather. Bath leads by 18 points.18
BathReykjavik
Score5537
Monthly daytime high6.8 °C to 21.4 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall49 mm to 87 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
Bath
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Bath
8
7
7
9
12
15
18
18
17
15
12
9
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Bath
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Bath
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
Bath
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Bath: 1991-2020 normals, Lyneham (29.2 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBathReykjavik
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 132 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 0 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 132 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
DublinDUB
1 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 25 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 68 km
5 h 35 m
€426-480
KEF · 37 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€85-113
1 stop
BRS · 25 km
4 h 0 m
€160-192
KEF · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 15 m
no fares
LHR · 132 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

MeasureBathReykjavik
Official languageEnglishIcelandic
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation132 m8 m
Main airportBristol Airport (BRS)25 km from centre116 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBathReykjavik
City population94,092138,772
People per km²3,245569
Museums within 10 km1723
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre3842
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.