VacationSelector

Glasgow 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

Glasgow
48
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

GlasgowReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 24 points.24
GlasgowReykjavik
Score3660
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km333
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Glasgow leads by 14 points.14
GlasgowReykjavik
Score6349
Restaurants within 2 km of centre740261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2929
Museums & heritage. Reykjavik leads by 5 points.5
GlasgowReykjavik
Score4550
Museums within 10 km3234
Museums within 2 km of centre1323
Share of museums within 2 km %4168
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Glasgow leads by 36 points.36
GlasgowReykjavik
Score6327
Drinking venues within 4 km1,078192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre654166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6186
Nightclubs within 4 km7310
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 21 points.21
GlasgowReykjavik
Score3859
Protected land share 50 km %1616
Landscape blanket share 50 km %120
Land share of disc %9156
Park area within 2 km56 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 1 points.1
GlasgowReykjavik
Score4142
Tourist attractions within 2 km1321
Park area within 2 km56 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Glasgow leads by 5 points.5
GlasgowReykjavik
Score5348
Notable places within 2 km8061
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Glasgow leads by 13 points.13
GlasgowReykjavik
Score5441
Price level global84.9102.8
Daily budget€243
Year-round weather. Glasgow leads by 6 points.6
GlasgowReykjavik
Score4337
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.9 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall102 mm to 207 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
Glasgow
7
7
9
12
15
18
19
19
16
13
9
7
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Glasgow
8
7
7
8
10
13
15
15
14
12
11
9
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Glasgow
207
170
147
102
103
111
129
145
132
185
190
205
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Glasgow
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Glasgow
1
2
3
4
5
4
4
4
3
2
2
1
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. Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGlasgowReykjavik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€38-45
GLA · 11 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
€55-94
EDI · 56 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
AlicanteALC
3 h 0 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
4 h 25 m
€240-369
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 30 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 55 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
5 h 35 m
€426-480
KEF · 37 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
no fares
GLA · 11 km
4 h 30 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
BostonBOS, PSM
6 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 56 km
5 h 15 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

MeasureGlasgowReykjavik
Official languageEnglishIcelandic
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation21 m8 m
Main airportGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureGlasgowReykjavik
City population626,410138,772
People per km²190569
Museums within 10 km2923
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre5442
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.