VacationSelector

Bucharest or Reykjavik?

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

Your match

Bucharest
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife 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.

BucharestReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
BucharestReykjavik
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km333
Coast distance198 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 18 points.18
BucharestReykjavik
Score6749
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4129
Museums & heritage. Reykjavik leads by 1 points.1
BucharestReykjavik
Score4950
Museums within 10 km7334
Museums within 2 km of centre4023
Share of museums within 2 km %5568
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 35 points.35
BucharestReykjavik
Score6227
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5386
Nightclubs within 4 km8010
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 23 points.23
BucharestReykjavik
Score3659
Protected land share 50 km %416
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km133 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 26 points.26
BucharestReykjavik
Score6842
Tourist attractions within 2 km4521
Park area within 2 km133 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 13 points.13
BucharestReykjavik
Score6148
Notable places within 2 km13061
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 44 points.44
BucharestReykjavik
Score8541
Price level global40.9102.8
Daily budget€99€243
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 26 points.26
BucharestReykjavik
Score6337
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 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
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
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. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestReykjavik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 30 m
€118-143
OTP · 18 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
4 h 0 m
€160-192
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
4 h 35 m
€255-375
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€92-150
OTP · 18 km
4 h 5 m
€281-315
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 2026-08 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

MeasureBucharestReykjavik
Official languageRomanianIcelandic
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m8 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestReykjavik
City population1,716,961138,772
People per km²7,597569
Museums within 10 km4123
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6842
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). 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. 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.