VacationSelector

Como or Reykjavik?

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

Your match

Como
34
match

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

Reykjavik
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

ComoReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
ComoReykjavik
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km833
Coast distance156 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Reykjavik leads by 24 points.24
ComoReykjavik
Score2549
Restaurants within 2 km of centre259261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km729
Museums & heritage. Reykjavik leads by 4 points.4
ComoReykjavik
Score4650
Museums within 10 km934
Museums within 2 km of centre623
Share of museums within 2 km %6768
Unesco sites within 50 km81
Nightlife. Reykjavik leads by 3 points.3
ComoReykjavik
Score2427
Drinking venues within 4 km213192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre143166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6786
Nightclubs within 4 km110
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 19 points.19
ComoReykjavik
Score4059
Protected land share 50 km %2316
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km15 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 27 points.27
ComoReykjavik
Score1542
Tourist attractions within 2 km621
Park area within 2 km15 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 18 points.18
ComoReykjavik
Score3048
Notable places within 2 km2261
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Como leads by 27 points.27
ComoReykjavik
Score6841
Price level global64.9102.8
Daily budget€155€243
Year-round weather. Como leads by 21 points.21
ComoReykjavik
Score5837
Monthly daytime high7.1 °C to 27.3 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall61 mm to 178 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
Como
7
9
14
17
21
25
27
27
22
17
12
8
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Como
No coastline within reach
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Como
69
61
76
138
178
172
158
158
168
150
167
80
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Como
9
10
12
14
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
Como
4
5
6
6
7
7
8
8
6
4
4
3
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. Como: 1991-2020 normals, Lugano (23 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromComoReykjavik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€48-103
MXP · 34 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 20 m
€46-63
MXP · 34 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
€542-635
1 stop
MXP · 34 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
€93-109
MXP · 34 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 40 m
€129-158
LIN · 43 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 30 m
€34-53
MXP · 34 km
4 h 10 m
€224-296
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€116-135
LIN · 43 km
4 h 35 m
€255-375
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 43 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 34 km
4 h 5 m
€222-314
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 34 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

MeasureComoReykjavik
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
Elevation201 m8 m
Main airportMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)34 km from centre203 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureComoReykjavik
City population83,184138,772
People per km²2,242569
Museums within 10 km923
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km81
Distinct cuisines in the centre2242
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.