VacationSelector

Hamburg or Reykjavik?

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

Your match

Hamburg
✓ Best match
53
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.

HamburgReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
HamburgReykjavik
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1633
Coast distance22 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Hamburg leads by 24 points.24
HamburgReykjavik
Score7349
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,150261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3829
Museums & heritage. Hamburg leads by 10 points.10
HamburgReykjavik
Score6050
Museums within 10 km9434
Museums within 2 km of centre5023
Share of museums within 2 km %5368
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Hamburg leads by 41 points.41
HamburgReykjavik
Score6827
Drinking venues within 4 km1,339192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre834166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6286
Nightclubs within 4 km11910
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 19 points.19
HamburgReykjavik
Score4059
Protected land share 50 km %1416
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %9956
Park area within 2 km89 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Hamburg leads by 18 points.18
HamburgReykjavik
Score6042
Tourist attractions within 2 km4021
Park area within 2 km89 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Hamburg leads by 11 points.11
HamburgReykjavik
Score5948
Notable places within 2 km11861
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hamburg leads by 19 points.19
HamburgReykjavik
Score6041
Price level global75.9102.8
Daily budget€163€243
Year-round weather. Hamburg leads by 18 points.18
HamburgReykjavik
Score5537
Monthly daytime high4.3 °C to 23.2 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall39 mm to 82 mm41 mm to 97 mm
Dry months10
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
Hamburg
4
5
9
14
18
21
23
23
19
14
8
5
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Hamburg
No coastline within reach
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Hamburg
67
55
57
39
58
74
82
77
65
63
61
72
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Hamburg
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Hamburg
1
2
4
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
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. Hamburg: 1991-2020 normals, Hamburg Airport (9.3 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHamburgReykjavik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€89-225
HAM · 9 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
MunichMUC
1 h 20 m
€195-270
HAM · 9 km
3 h 50 m
€275-453
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€155-168
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 0 m
no fares
HAM · 9 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 5 m
€337-378
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€178-237
HAM · 9 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 30 m
€216-237
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
3 h 45 m
€365-480
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€167-214
1 stop
HAM · 9 km
4 h 5 m
€281-315
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 30 m
€109-148
HAM · 9 km
2 h 45 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

MeasureHamburgReykjavik
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
Elevation6 m8 m
Main airportHamburg Helmut Schmidt Airport (HAM)9 km from centre119 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureHamburgReykjavik
City population1,910,160138,772
People per km²2,530569
Museums within 10 km7723
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8342
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.