VacationSelector

Maastricht or Reykjavik?

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

Your match

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

MaastrichtReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
MaastrichtReykjavik
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km633
Coast distance118 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Reykjavik leads by 1 points.1
MaastrichtReykjavik
Score4849
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2229
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 3 points.3
MaastrichtReykjavik
Score5350
Museums within 10 km2334
Museums within 2 km of centre1323
Share of museums within 2 km %5768
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Maastricht leads by 3 points.3
MaastrichtReykjavik
Score3027
Drinking venues within 4 km223192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre182166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8286
Nightclubs within 4 km1310
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 22 points.22
MaastrichtReykjavik
Score3759
Protected land share 50 km %1916
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km33 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht leads by 4 points.4
MaastrichtReykjavik
Score4642
Tourist attractions within 2 km1521
Park area within 2 km33 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 12 points.12
MaastrichtReykjavik
Score3648
Notable places within 2 km3261
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Maastricht leads by 17 points.17
MaastrichtReykjavik
Score5841
Price level global79.2102.8
Daily budget€181€243
Year-round weather. Maastricht leads by 22 points.22
MaastrichtReykjavik
Score5937
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
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. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtReykjavik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 35 m
€117-136
1 stop
BRU · 85 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 55 m
€123-157
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
4 h 0 m
€157-219
KEF · 37 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
4 h 0 m
€160-192
KEF · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
4 h 35 m
€255-375
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
FaroFAO
2 h 55 m
€223
EIN · 70 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 85 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

MeasureMaastrichtReykjavik
Official languageDutchIcelandic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation49 m8 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtReykjavik
City population120,227138,772
People per km²2,000569
Museums within 10 km2123
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre3342
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.