VacationSelector

Berlin or Reykjavik?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration 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.

BerlinReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
BerlinReykjavik
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1733
Coast distance142 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 21 points.21
BerlinReykjavik
Score7049
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,117261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3329
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 29 points.29
BerlinReykjavik
Score7950
Museums within 10 km20034
Museums within 2 km of centre8123
Share of museums within 2 km %4168
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 49 points.49
BerlinReykjavik
Score7627
Drinking venues within 4 km2,114192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3486
Nightclubs within 4 km13510
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 10 points.10
BerlinReykjavik
Score4959
Protected land share 50 km %2016
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km141 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 34 points.34
BerlinReykjavik
Score7642
Tourist attractions within 2 km5421
Park area within 2 km141 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 36 points.36
BerlinReykjavik
Score8448
Notable places within 2 km48661
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Berlin leads by 19 points.19
BerlinReykjavik
Score6041
Price level global75.9102.8
Daily budget€163€243
Year-round weather. Berlin leads by 23 points.23
BerlinReykjavik
Score6037
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 mm41 mm to 97 mm
Dry months30
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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
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
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinReykjavik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 5 m
€57-77
BER · 19 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
3 h 50 m
€275-453
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 25 m
€149-251
BER · 19 km
3 h 45 m
€365-480
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 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

MeasureBerlinReykjavik
Official languageGermanIcelandic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC
Emergency number112112
Elevation34 m8 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinReykjavik
City population3,782,202138,772
People per km²4,244569
Museums within 10 km15823
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8642
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.