VacationSelector

Reykjavik or Siena?

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.

Siena
39
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.

ReykjavikSiena
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
ReykjavikSiena
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km330
Coast distance0 km64 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Reykjavik leads by 17 points.17
ReykjavikSiena
Score4932
Restaurants within 2 km of centre261242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2911
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 21 points.21
ReykjavikSiena
Score5071
Museums within 10 km3455
Museums within 2 km of centre2351
Share of museums within 2 km %6893
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Reykjavik leads by 10 points.10
ReykjavikSiena
Score2717
Drinking venues within 4 km192142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre166119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8684
Nightclubs within 4 km101
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 40 points.40
ReykjavikSiena
Score5919
Protected land share 50 km %163
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km28 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 11 points.11
ReykjavikSiena
Score4231
Tourist attractions within 2 km2113
Park area within 2 km28 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Siena leads by 2 points.2
ReykjavikSiena
Score4850
Notable places within 2 km6169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Siena leads by 27 points.27
ReykjavikSiena
Score4168
Price level global102.864.9
Daily budget€243€155
Year-round weather. Siena leads by 27 points.27
ReykjavikSiena
Score3764
Monthly daytime high3.2 °C to 14.9 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 97 mm49 mm to 136 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
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Siena
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Siena
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0
Siena
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromReykjavikSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 15 m
€172-198
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
4 h 35 m
€255-375
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
4 h 10 m
€224-296
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
3 h 50 m
€275-453
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 35 m
€227-256
KEF · 37 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
PSA · 86 km
ZurichZRH
3 h 45 m
€365-480
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 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 2026-08 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

MeasureReykjavikSiena
Official languageIcelandicItalian
CurrencyIceland Krona (ISK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTCUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation8 m322 m
Main airportKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureReykjavikSiena
City population138,77252,812
People per km²569446
Museums within 10 km2329
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre4225
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.