VacationSelector

Reykjavik or Seville?

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

Your match

Reykjavik
46
match

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

Seville
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife 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.

ReykjavikSeville
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
ReykjavikSeville
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km332
Coast distance0 km65 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Seville leads by 17 points.17
ReykjavikSeville
Score4966
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2611,370
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2922
Museums & heritage. Seville leads by 6 points.6
ReykjavikSeville
Score5056
Museums within 10 km3450
Museums within 2 km of centre2340
Share of museums within 2 km %6880
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Seville leads by 35 points.35
ReykjavikSeville
Score2762
Drinking venues within 4 km1921,089
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre166679
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8662
Nightclubs within 4 km1057
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 22 points.22
ReykjavikSeville
Score5937
Protected land share 50 km %168
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km28 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Seville leads by 23 points.23
ReykjavikSeville
Score4265
Tourist attractions within 2 km2147
Park area within 2 km28 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Seville leads by 7 points.7
ReykjavikSeville
Score4855
Notable places within 2 km6192
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Seville leads by 30 points.30
ReykjavikSeville
Score4171
Price level global102.860.8
Daily budget€243€122
Year-round weather. Seville leads by 38 points.38
ReykjavikSeville
Score3775
Monthly daytime high3.2 °C to 14.9 °C16.3 °C to 36.2 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 97 mm1 mm to 78 mm
Dry months05
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
Seville
16
18
22
24
28
33
36
36
32
26
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Seville
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Seville
56
46
47
51
33
6
1
3
32
74
72
78
Daylight, hours per day
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Seville
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0
Seville
6
7
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
8
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromReykjavikSeville
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
BarcelonaBCN
4 h 10 m
€224-296
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 35 m
€111-178
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 25 m
€99-133
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
2 h 50 m
€180-230
1 stop
SVQ · 9 km
TenerifeTFS, TFN
5 h 25 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
2 h 20 m
€126-171
SVQ · 9 km
MadridMAD
4 h 5 m
€222-314
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
4 h 35 m
€255-375
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
4 h 0 m
€160-192
KEF · 37 km
2 h 25 m
€89-105
SVQ · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SVQ · 9 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

MeasureReykjavikSeville
Official languageIcelandicSpanish
CurrencyIceland Krona (ISK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTCUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation8 m18 m
Main airportKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureReykjavikSeville
City population138,772689,423
People per km²5694,896
Museums within 10 km2324
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4252
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.