VacationSelector

Reykjavik or Salzburg?

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

Your match

Reykjavik
✓ Best match
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Salzburg
42
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

ReykjavikSalzburg
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
ReykjavikSalzburg
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km339
Coast distance0 km653 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Reykjavik and Salzburg are level on 49.
ReykjavikSalzburg
Score4949
Restaurants within 2 km of centre261348
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2923
Museums & heritage. Salzburg leads by 10 points.10
ReykjavikSalzburg
Score5060
Museums within 10 km3442
Museums within 2 km of centre2327
Share of museums within 2 km %6864
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Salzburg leads by 9 points.9
ReykjavikSalzburg
Score2736
Drinking venues within 4 km192294
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre166241
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8682
Nightclubs within 4 km1016
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 32 points.32
ReykjavikSalzburg
Score5927
Protected land share 50 km %166
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km28 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Salzburg leads by 6 points.6
ReykjavikSalzburg
Score4248
Tourist attractions within 2 km2117
Park area within 2 km28 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 2 points.2
ReykjavikSalzburg
Score4846
Notable places within 2 km6154
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Salzburg leads by 18 points.18
ReykjavikSalzburg
Score4159
Price level global102.876.9
Daily budget€243€160
Year-round weather. Salzburg leads by 17 points.17
ReykjavikSalzburg
Score3754
Monthly daytime high3.2 °C to 14.9 °C3.4 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 97 mm47 mm to 168 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
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Daylight, hours per day
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre). Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromReykjavikSalzburg
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 55 m
€186-283
SZG · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
MadridMAD
4 h 5 m
€222-314
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
BarcelonaBCN
4 h 10 m
€224-296
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 45 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
2 h 15 m
€225-291
MUC · 112 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 35 m
€268-383
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
2 h 30 m
€194-265
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
4 h 35 m
€255-375
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 30 m
€141-202
MUC · 112 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
MUC · 112 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

MeasureReykjavikSalzburg
Official languageIcelandicGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyIceland Krona (ISK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTCUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation8 m424 m
Main airportKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureReykjavikSalzburg
City population138,772155,021
People per km²5692,360
Museums within 10 km2338
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre4250
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. 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). 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. 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.