VacationSelector

Reykjavik or Tampa?

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, 2 points apart

Reykjavik
46
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming 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.

ReykjavikTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 15 points.15
ReykjavikTampa
Score6075
Swim season months08
Beaches 10 km3310
Coast distance0 km1 km
Water distance0 km1 km
Places to eat. Tampa leads by 5 points.5
ReykjavikTampa
Score4954
Restaurants within 2 km of centre261359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2931
Museums & heritage. Reykjavik leads by 23 points.23
ReykjavikTampa
Score5027
Museums within 10 km3413
Museums within 2 km of centre2310
Share of museums within 2 km %6877
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Tampa leads by 12 points.12
ReykjavikTampa
Score2739
Drinking venues within 4 km192324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre166227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8670
Nightclubs within 4 km1026
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 29 points.29
ReykjavikTampa
Score5930
Protected land share 50 km %166
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5672
Park area within 2 km28 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 12 points.12
ReykjavikTampa
Score4230
Tourist attractions within 2 km213
Park area within 2 km28 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 27 points.27
ReykjavikTampa
Score4821
Notable places within 2 km6113
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tampa leads by 2 points.2
ReykjavikTampa
Score4143
Price level global102.8100
Daily budget€243
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 38 points.38
ReykjavikTampa
Score3775
Monthly daytime high3.2 °C to 14.9 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 97 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months01
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromReykjavikTampa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
BostonBOS, PSM
5 h 15 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
6 h 15 m
€415-534
KEF · 37 km
2 h 35 m
€176-204
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
5 h 35 m
€426-480
KEF · 37 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
5 h 55 m
€406-422
KEF · 37 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
RaleighRDU
6 h 20 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
7 h 30 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 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

MeasureReykjavikTampa
Official languageIcelandic
CurrencyIceland Krona (ISK)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTCUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation8 m30 m
Main airportKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureReykjavikTampa
City population138,772384,959
People per km²569848
Museums within 10 km236
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4247
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone8 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.