VacationSelector

Interlaken or Reykjavik?

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

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Reykjavik
✓ Best match
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.

InterlakenReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
InterlakenReykjavik
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1233
Coast distance713 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Reykjavik leads by 20 points.20
InterlakenReykjavik
Score2949
Restaurants within 2 km of centre118261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1729
Museums & heritage. Reykjavik leads by 27 points.27
InterlakenReykjavik
Score2350
Museums within 10 km534
Museums within 2 km of centre223
Share of museums within 2 km %4068
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Reykjavik leads by 23 points.23
InterlakenReykjavik
Score427
Drinking venues within 4 km42192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9086
Nightclubs within 4 km310
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 32 points.32
InterlakenReykjavik
Score2759
Protected land share 50 km %1916
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km5 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 28 points.28
InterlakenReykjavik
Score1442
Tourist attractions within 2 km1121
Park area within 2 km5 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 26 points.26
InterlakenReykjavik
Score2248
Notable places within 2 km1461
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Reykjavik leads by 6 points.6
InterlakenReykjavik
Score3541
Price level global110.5102.8
Daily budget€248€243
Year-round weather. Interlaken leads by 20 points.20
InterlakenReykjavik
Score5737
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 mm41 mm to 97 mm
Dry months30
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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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Interlaken
No coastline within reach
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Interlaken
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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenReykjavik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 45 m
€204-248
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 30 m
€245-365
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
4 h 5 m
€281-315
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 135 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

MeasureInterlakenReykjavik
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshIcelandic
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC
Emergency number112112
Elevation571 m8 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenReykjavik
City population6,123138,772
People per km²1,424569
Museums within 10 km323
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre2242
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.