VacationSelector

Reykjavik or Toronto?

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 beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

ReykjavikToronto
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 17 points.17
ReykjavikToronto
Score6043
Swim season months01
Beaches 10 km3358
Coast distance0 km533 km
Water distance0 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 33 points.33
ReykjavikToronto
Score4982
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2612,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2939
Museums & heritage. Reykjavik leads by 7 points.7
ReykjavikToronto
Score5043
Museums within 10 km3435
Museums within 2 km of centre2325
Share of museums within 2 km %6871
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 42 points.42
ReykjavikToronto
Score2769
Drinking venues within 4 km1921,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre166966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8664
Nightclubs within 4 km10103
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 33 points.33
ReykjavikToronto
Score5926
Protected land share 50 km %162
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km28 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 15 points.15
ReykjavikToronto
Score4257
Tourist attractions within 2 km2123
Park area within 2 km28 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 13 points.13
ReykjavikToronto
Score4861
Notable places within 2 km61128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toronto leads by 13 points.13
ReykjavikToronto
Score4154
Price level global102.884
Daily budget€243
Year-round weather. Toronto leads by 18 points.18
ReykjavikToronto
Score3755
Monthly daytime high3.2 °C to 14.9 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 97 mm51 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Toronto
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
Toronto
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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromReykjavikToronto
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
BostonBOS, PSM
5 h 15 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
1 h 30 m
€294-299
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
5 h 55 m
€406-422
KEF · 37 km
1 h 20 m
€183-189
YYZ · 20 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
6 h 15 m
€415-534
KEF · 37 km
1 h 30 m
€185-501
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
13 h 5 m
€1,024-1087
2 stops
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureReykjavikToronto
Official languageIcelandicFrench, English
CurrencyIceland Krona (ISK)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTCUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation8 m76 m
Main airportKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureReykjavikToronto
City population138,7722,794,356
People per km²5694,434
Museums within 10 km2332
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre42102
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone1 month

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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.