VacationSelector

Catania or Reykjavik?

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

Your match

Catania
✓ Best match
52
match

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

Reykjavik
46
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

CataniaReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 2 points.2
CataniaReykjavik
Score5860
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km533
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Catania and Reykjavik are level on 49.
CataniaReykjavik
Score4949
Restaurants within 2 km of centre637261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1429
Museums & heritage. Catania leads by 9 points.9
CataniaReykjavik
Score5950
Museums within 10 km3434
Museums within 2 km of centre2723
Share of museums within 2 km %7968
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Catania leads by 20 points.20
CataniaReykjavik
Score4727
Drinking venues within 4 km537192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre403166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7586
Nightclubs within 4 km1810
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 28 points.28
CataniaReykjavik
Score3159
Protected land share 50 km %1016
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6156
Park area within 2 km11 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 6 points.6
CataniaReykjavik
Score3642
Tourist attractions within 2 km2521
Park area within 2 km11 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 9 points.9
CataniaReykjavik
Score3948
Notable places within 2 km3761
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Catania leads by 27 points.27
CataniaReykjavik
Score6841
Price level global64.9102.8
Daily budget€155€243
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 40 points.40
CataniaReykjavik
Score7737
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 mm41 mm to 97 mm
Dry months50
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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCataniaReykjavik
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
4 h 0 m
€160-192
KEF · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
4 h 35 m
€255-375
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 35 m
€91-153
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 5 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€201-205
CTA · 4 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 15 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
€101-146
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
VeniceVCE, TSF
1 h 45 m
€49-57
CTA · 4 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
OsloOSL, TRF
3 h 40 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
2 h 45 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

MeasureCataniaReykjavik
Official languageItalianIcelandic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m8 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaReykjavik
City population311,584138,772
People per km²1,704569
Museums within 10 km2523
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre3042
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.