VacationSelector

Reykjavik or Split?

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 nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

Split
✓ Best match
51
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.

ReykjavikSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 13 points.13
ReykjavikSplit
Score6073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km3387
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Reykjavik leads by 11 points.11
ReykjavikSplit
Score4938
Restaurants within 2 km of centre261268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2915
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 2 points.2
ReykjavikSplit
Score5052
Museums within 10 km3418
Museums within 2 km of centre2316
Share of museums within 2 km %6889
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Split leads by 14 points.14
ReykjavikSplit
Score2741
Drinking venues within 4 km192379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre166263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8669
Nightclubs within 4 km1023
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 21 points.21
ReykjavikSplit
Score5938
Protected land share 50 km %169
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5662
Park area within 2 km28 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 16 points.16
ReykjavikSplit
Score4226
Tourist attractions within 2 km219
Park area within 2 km28 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 6 points.6
ReykjavikSplit
Score4842
Notable places within 2 km6143
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Split leads by 39 points.39
ReykjavikSplit
Score4180
Price level global102.848.5
Daily budget€243€138
Year-round weather. Split leads by 32 points.32
ReykjavikSplit
Score3769
Monthly daytime high3.2 °C to 14.9 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 97 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months02
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
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Split
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
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
4
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromReykjavikSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 15 m
€119-192
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 45 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
4 h 35 m
€255-375
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
ViennaVIE
4 h 5 m
€281-315
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
1 h 15 m
€233-281
SPU · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 10 m
€174-231
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 12 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

MeasureReykjavikSplit
Official languageIcelandicCroatian
CurrencyIceland Krona (ISK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTCUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation8 m0 m
Main airportKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureReykjavikSplit
City population138,772160,577
People per km²569
Museums within 10 km2311
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre4231
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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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.