VacationSelector

Bruges or Reykjavik?

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, 2 points apart

Bruges
44
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

BrugesReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 52 points.52
BrugesReykjavik
Score860
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km133
Coast distance14 km0 km
Water distance14 km0 km
Places to eat. Bruges leads by 8 points.8
BrugesReykjavik
Score5749
Restaurants within 2 km of centre443261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3229
Museums & heritage. Bruges leads by 7 points.7
BrugesReykjavik
Score5750
Museums within 10 km3034
Museums within 2 km of centre2423
Share of museums within 2 km %8068
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Bruges leads by 7 points.7
BrugesReykjavik
Score3427
Drinking venues within 4 km292192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8086
Nightclubs within 4 km810
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 33 points.33
BrugesReykjavik
Score2659
Protected land share 50 km %216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6556
Park area within 2 km59 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 18 points.18
BrugesReykjavik
Score6042
Tourist attractions within 2 km5221
Park area within 2 km59 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 8 points.8
BrugesReykjavik
Score4048
Notable places within 2 km4061
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bruges leads by 19 points.19
BrugesReykjavik
Score6041
Price level global76.2102.8
Daily budget€180€243
Year-round weather. Bruges leads by 19 points.19
BrugesReykjavik
Score5637
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm41 mm to 97 mm
Dry months10
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
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
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
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
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. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrugesReykjavik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
4 h 5 m
€222-314
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
4 h 35 m
€255-375
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
4 h 0 m
€160-192
KEF · 37 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 45 m
€93-156
BRU · 94 km
4 h 5 m
€281-315
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 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

MeasureBrugesReykjavik
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
Elevation2 m8 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 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

MeasureBrugesReykjavik
City population118,509138,772
People per km²840569
Museums within 10 km3823
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre5142
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). 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. 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.