VacationSelector

Dresden 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

Dresden
48
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

DresdenReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
DresdenReykjavik
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2233
Coast distance267 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Dresden leads by 12 points.12
DresdenReykjavik
Score6149
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4229
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 4 points.4
DresdenReykjavik
Score5450
Museums within 10 km6634
Museums within 2 km of centre3423
Share of museums within 2 km %5268
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Dresden leads by 15 points.15
DresdenReykjavik
Score4227
Drinking venues within 4 km359192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7486
Nightclubs within 4 km4310
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 20 points.20
DresdenReykjavik
Score3959
Protected land share 50 km %1416
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km80 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 17 points.17
DresdenReykjavik
Score5942
Tourist attractions within 2 km3221
Park area within 2 km80 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 5 points.5
DresdenReykjavik
Score5348
Notable places within 2 km8261
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Dresden leads by 19 points.19
DresdenReykjavik
Score6041
Price level global75.9102.8
Daily budget€163€243
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 25 points.25
DresdenReykjavik
Score6237
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm41 mm to 97 mm
Dry months40
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
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
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
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
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. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenReykjavik
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€66-91
PRG · 112 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
LEJ · 113 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
4 h 0 m
€160-192
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
4 h 35 m
€255-375
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 5 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
4 h 10 m
€224-296
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 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

MeasureDresdenReykjavik
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
Elevation126 m8 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenReykjavik
City population564,904138,772
People per km²1,720569
Museums within 10 km7023
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7742
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.