VacationSelector

Munich or Reykjavik?

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

Your match

Munich
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families 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.

MunichReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
MunichReykjavik
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km633
Coast distance579 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Munich leads by 24 points.24
MunichReykjavik
Score7349
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,280261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3529
Museums & heritage. Munich leads by 11 points.11
MunichReykjavik
Score6150
Museums within 10 km7434
Museums within 2 km of centre4823
Share of museums within 2 km %6568
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Munich leads by 40 points.40
MunichReykjavik
Score6727
Drinking venues within 4 km1,335192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre763166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5786
Nightclubs within 4 km10310
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 11 points.11
MunichReykjavik
Score4859
Protected land share 50 km %1716
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km199 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Munich leads by 37 points.37
MunichReykjavik
Score7942
Tourist attractions within 2 km8021
Park area within 2 km199 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Munich leads by 20 points.20
MunichReykjavik
Score6848
Notable places within 2 km19661
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Munich leads by 19 points.19
MunichReykjavik
Score6041
Price level global75.9102.8
Daily budget€163€243
Year-round weather. Munich leads by 19 points.19
MunichReykjavik
Score5637
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 25 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall46 mm to 121 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
Munich
4
6
10
15
19
23
25
25
20
15
8
5
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Munich
No coastline within reach
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Munich
52
46
61
56
107
121
119
117
78
67
58
59
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Munich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Munich
2
3
5
6
7
7
8
8
6
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. Munich: 1991-2020 normals, München (1.9 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMunichReykjavik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€116-210
MUC · 29 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 35 m
€237-292
1 stop
MUC · 29 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 29 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€227-267
MUC · 29 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 29 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€177-210
MUC · 29 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
BerlinBER
1 h 15 m
€159-217
MUC · 29 km
3 h 30 m
€245-365
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 15 m
€225-291
MUC · 29 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 29 km
4 h 10 m
€224-296
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 29 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

MeasureMunichReykjavik
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
Elevation519 m8 m
Main airportMunich Airport (MUC)29 km from centre208 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureMunichReykjavik
City population1,510,378138,772
People per km²4,861569
Museums within 10 km7423
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre8942
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.