VacationSelector

Florence or Reykjavik?

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

Your match

Florence
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

FlorenceReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
FlorenceReykjavik
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km033
Coast distance78 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Florence leads by 10 points.10
FlorenceReykjavik
Score5949
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,299261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1529
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 32 points.32
FlorenceReykjavik
Score8250
Museums within 10 km13234
Museums within 2 km of centre9323
Share of museums within 2 km %7068
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Florence leads by 29 points.29
FlorenceReykjavik
Score5627
Drinking venues within 4 km818192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7386
Nightclubs within 4 km3410
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 21 points.21
FlorenceReykjavik
Score3859
Protected land share 50 km %916
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km86 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Florence leads by 10 points.10
FlorenceReykjavik
Score5242
Tourist attractions within 2 km3021
Park area within 2 km86 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 27 points.27
FlorenceReykjavik
Score7548
Notable places within 2 km29261
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Florence leads by 27 points.27
FlorenceReykjavik
Score6841
Price level global64.9102.8
Daily budget€155€243
Year-round weather. Florence leads by 31 points.31
FlorenceReykjavik
Score6837
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm41 mm to 97 mm
Dry months20
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
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Florence
No coastline within reach
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
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. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceReykjavik
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€172-198
FLR · 6 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
4 h 35 m
€255-375
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
4 h 10 m
€224-296
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
3 h 50 m
€275-453
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 70 km
2 h 35 m
€227-256
KEF · 37 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
3 h 45 m
€365-480
1 stop
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

MeasureFlorenceReykjavik
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
Elevation50 m8 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceReykjavik
City population360,930138,772
People per km²3,528569
Museums within 10 km14023
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre6242
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.