VacationSelector

Fort Lauderdale 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, 1 point apart

Fort Lauderdale
45
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Reykjavik
46
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

Fort LauderdaleReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 24 points.24
Fort LauderdaleReykjavik
Score8460
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km733
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Reykjavik leads by 4 points.4
Fort LauderdaleReykjavik
Score4549
Restaurants within 2 km of centre371261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1829
Museums & heritage. Reykjavik leads by 30 points.30
Fort LauderdaleReykjavik
Score2050
Museums within 10 km1434
Museums within 2 km of centre623
Share of museums within 2 km %4368
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Fort Lauderdale leads by 7 points.7
Fort LauderdaleReykjavik
Score3427
Drinking venues within 4 km259192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre144166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5686
Nightclubs within 4 km1810
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 22 points.22
Fort LauderdaleReykjavik
Score8159
Protected land share 50 km %2016
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5156
Park area within 2 km45 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 23 points.23
Fort LauderdaleReykjavik
Score1942
Tourist attractions within 2 km221
Park area within 2 km45 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 48 points.48
Fort LauderdaleReykjavik
Score048
Notable places within 2 km261
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Fort Lauderdale leads by 2 points.2
Fort LauderdaleReykjavik
Score4341
Price level global100102.8
Daily budget€243
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 39 points.39
Fort LauderdaleReykjavik
Score7637
Monthly daytime high24.2 °C to 32.3 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 219 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
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record
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. Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFort LauderdaleReykjavik
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
5 h 35 m
€426-480
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 55 m
€119-159
FLL · 7 km
6 h 15 m
€415-534
KEF · 37 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
2 h 25 m
€164-177
FLL · 7 km
5 h 55 m
€406-422
KEF · 37 km
BostonBOS, PSM
3 h 0 m
€292-332
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
5 h 50 m
no fares
FLL · 7 km
7 h 30 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

MeasureFort LauderdaleReykjavik
Official languageIcelandic
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC
Emergency number911112
Elevation11 m8 m
Main airportFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureFort LauderdaleReykjavik
City population182,760138,772
People per km²1,829569
Museums within 10 km623
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre2542
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.