VacationSelector

Nuremberg or Reykjavik?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Nuremberg
48
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife 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.

NurembergReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
NurembergReykjavik
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km633
Coast distance430 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Nuremberg leads by 15 points.15
NurembergReykjavik
Score6449
Restaurants within 2 km of centre700261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3329
Museums & heritage. Nuremberg leads by 2 points.2
NurembergReykjavik
Score5250
Museums within 10 km5334
Museums within 2 km of centre2923
Share of museums within 2 km %5568
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Nuremberg leads by 21 points.21
NurembergReykjavik
Score4827
Drinking venues within 4 km523192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8286
Nightclubs within 4 km3610
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 10 points.10
NurembergReykjavik
Score4959
Protected land share 50 km %4216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %410
Land share of disc %10056
Park area within 2 km31 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Nuremberg leads by 17 points.17
NurembergReykjavik
Score5942
Tourist attractions within 2 km5921
Park area within 2 km31 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 4 points.4
NurembergReykjavik
Score4448
Notable places within 2 km5061
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Nuremberg leads by 19 points.19
NurembergReykjavik
Score6041
Price level global75.9102.8
Daily budget€163€243
Year-round weather. Nuremberg leads by 23 points.23
NurembergReykjavik
Score6037
Monthly daytime high3.5 °C to 25.2 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 77 mm41 mm to 97 mm
Dry months40
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
Nuremberg
4
5
10
15
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Nuremberg
No coastline within reach
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Nuremberg
40
33
39
33
61
64
77
60
49
50
47
49
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Nuremberg
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
Nuremberg
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
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. Nuremberg: 1991-2020 normals, Nuernberg (5.5 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNurembergReykjavik
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 40 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
55 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
NUE · 5 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 35 m
€237-292
1 stop
MUC · 133 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 35 m
€139-243
NUE · 5 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
BostonBOS, PSM
7 h 55 m
no fares
MUC · 133 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 15 m
€225-291
MUC · 133 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 133 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

MeasureNurembergReykjavik
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
Elevation209 m8 m
Main airportNuremberg Airport (NUE)5 km from centre54 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureNurembergReykjavik
City population529,508138,772
People per km²2,839569
Museums within 10 km5023
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7142
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.