VacationSelector

Reykjavik or The Hague?

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 with your weighting.

The Hague
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on places to eat 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.

ReykjavikThe Hague
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik and The Hague are level on 60.
ReykjavikThe Hague
Score6060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3334
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. The Hague leads by 21 points.21
ReykjavikThe Hague
Score4970
Restaurants within 2 km of centre261798
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2943
Museums & heritage. The Hague leads by 12 points.12
ReykjavikThe Hague
Score5062
Museums within 10 km3446
Museums within 2 km of centre2326
Share of museums within 2 km %6857
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. The Hague leads by 19 points.19
ReykjavikThe Hague
Score2746
Drinking venues within 4 km192511
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre166288
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8656
Nightclubs within 4 km1019
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 5 points.5
ReykjavikThe Hague
Score5954
Protected land share 50 km %168
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5656
Park area within 2 km28 hectares159 hectares
Good for families. The Hague leads by 14 points.14
ReykjavikThe Hague
Score4256
Tourist attractions within 2 km2110
Park area within 2 km28 hectares159 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km17
Sights concentration. The Hague leads by 6 points.6
ReykjavikThe Hague
Score4854
Notable places within 2 km6186
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. The Hague leads by 17 points.17
ReykjavikThe Hague
Score4158
Price level global102.879.2
Daily budget€243€181
Year-round weather. The Hague leads by 17 points.17
ReykjavikThe Hague
Score3754
Monthly daytime high3.2 °C to 14.9 °C6.1 °C to 21.3 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 97 mm42 mm to 85 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
The Hague
6
7
9
13
16
19
21
21
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
The Hague
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Rainfall, mm
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
The Hague
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Daylight, hours per day
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
The Hague
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0
The Hague
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre). The Hague: 1991-2020 normals, Valkenburg (13.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromReykjavikThe Hague
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 40 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 40 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 40 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 35 m
€227-256
KEF · 37 km
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 40 km
MadridMAD
4 h 5 m
€222-314
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 40 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 5 m
€159-284
RTM · 16 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 10 m
€174-231
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 40 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
50 m
no fares
BRU · 132 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 40 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

MeasureReykjavikThe Hague
Official languageIcelandicDutch
CurrencyIceland Krona (ISK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTCUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 911
Elevation8 m1 m
Main airportKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)16 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureReykjavikThe Hague
City population138,772548,320
People per km²5695,589
Museums within 10 km2354
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre4277
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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.