VacationSelector

Liverpool or Reykjavik?

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

Your match

Liverpool
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on nightlife and year-round weather with your weighting.

Reykjavik
46
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

LiverpoolReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Liverpool and Reykjavik are level on 60.
LiverpoolReykjavik
Score6060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3433
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Liverpool leads by 11 points.11
LiverpoolReykjavik
Score6049
Restaurants within 2 km of centre542261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3229
Museums & heritage. Reykjavik leads by 7 points.7
LiverpoolReykjavik
Score4350
Museums within 10 km2334
Museums within 2 km of centre1223
Share of museums within 2 km %5268
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Liverpool leads by 34 points.34
LiverpoolReykjavik
Score6127
Drinking venues within 4 km977192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre651166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6786
Nightclubs within 4 km7910
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 1 points.1
LiverpoolReykjavik
Score5859
Protected land share 50 km %16
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6056
Park area within 2 km81 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Liverpool leads by 16 points.16
LiverpoolReykjavik
Score5842
Tourist attractions within 2 km2521
Park area within 2 km81 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Liverpool leads by 2 points.2
LiverpoolReykjavik
Score5048
Notable places within 2 km6861
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Liverpool leads by 13 points.13
LiverpoolReykjavik
Score5441
Price level global84.9102.8
Daily budget€243
Year-round weather. Liverpool leads by 17 points.17
LiverpoolReykjavik
Score5437
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 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
Liverpool
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Liverpool
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Liverpool
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Liverpool
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
Liverpool
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2
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. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLiverpoolReykjavik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
55 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
5 h 35 m
€426-480
KEF · 37 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
4 h 15 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
AlicanteALC
2 h 40 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
4 h 25 m
€240-369
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
4 h 0 m
€157-219
KEF · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 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 2026-09 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

MeasureLiverpoolReykjavik
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
Elevation70 m8 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre74 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolReykjavik
City population513,441138,772
People per km²4,592569
Museums within 10 km3123
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre4942
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. 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.