VacationSelector

Pisa 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, 1 point apart

Pisa
45
match

Wins on year-round weather and value for money 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.

PisaReykjavik
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 39 points.39
PisaReykjavik
Score2160
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km133
Coast distance10 km0 km
Water distance10 km0 km
Places to eat. Reykjavik leads by 15 points.15
PisaReykjavik
Score3449
Restaurants within 2 km of centre379261
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km929
Museums & heritage. Pisa leads by 5 points.5
PisaReykjavik
Score5550
Museums within 10 km2734
Museums within 2 km of centre2223
Share of museums within 2 km %8168
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Pisa leads by 1 points.1
PisaReykjavik
Score2827
Drinking venues within 4 km232192
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203166
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8886
Nightclubs within 4 km310
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 20 points.20
PisaReykjavik
Score3959
Protected land share 50 km %916
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6556
Park area within 2 km40 hectares28 hectares
Good for families. Pisa leads by 5 points.5
PisaReykjavik
Score4742
Tourist attractions within 2 km2021
Park area within 2 km40 hectares28 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 1 points.1
PisaReykjavik
Score4748
Notable places within 2 km5861
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Pisa leads by 27 points.27
PisaReykjavik
Score6841
Price level global64.9102.8
Daily budget€155€243
Year-round weather. Pisa leads by 33 points.33
PisaReykjavik
Score7037
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C3.2 °C to 14.9 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm41 mm to 97 mm
Dry months20
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
Pisa
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Pisa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Pisa
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Daylight, hours per day
Pisa
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Sunshine, hours per day
Pisa
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. Pisa: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (3.9 km from centre). Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPisaReykjavik
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 4 km
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€102-140
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 65 km
4 h 35 m
€255-375
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 35 m
€227-256
KEF · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
DublinDUB
2 h 35 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
BerlinBER
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 4 km
3 h 30 m
€245-365
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 4 km
3 h 10 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 2026-09, 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

MeasurePisaReykjavik
Official languageItalianIcelandic
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Iceland Krona (ISK)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC
Emergency number112112
Elevation4 m8 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)4 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasurePisaReykjavik
City population88,737138,772
People per km²479569
Museums within 10 km2723
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre2942
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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). 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. 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.