VacationSelector

Reykjavik or Toulouse?

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 beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Toulouse
48
match

Wins on year-round weather and good for families 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.

ReykjavikToulouse
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
ReykjavikToulouse
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km331
Coast distance0 km145 km
Water distance0 km—
Places to eat. Toulouse leads by 21 points.21
ReykjavikToulouse
Score4970
Restaurants within 2 km of centre261962
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2937
Museums & heritage. Toulouse leads by 1 points.1
ReykjavikToulouse
Score5051
Museums within 10 km3427
Museums within 2 km of centre2318
Share of museums within 2 km %6867
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Toulouse leads by 16 points.16
ReykjavikToulouse
Score2743
Drinking venues within 4 km192389
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre166343
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8688
Nightclubs within 4 km1036
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 38 points.38
ReykjavikToulouse
Score5921
Protected land share 50 km %161
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km28 hectares43 hectares
Good for families. Toulouse leads by 24 points.24
ReykjavikToulouse
Score4266
Tourist attractions within 2 km2180
Park area within 2 km28 hectares43 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Toulouse leads by 3 points.3
ReykjavikToulouse
Score4851
Notable places within 2 km6172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Toulouse leads by 21 points.21
ReykjavikToulouse
Score4162
Price level global102.873.7
Daily budget€243€160
Year-round weather. Toulouse leads by 34 points.34
ReykjavikToulouse
Score3771
Monthly daytime high3.2 °C to 14.9 °C9.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 97 mm37 mm to 74 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
Toulouse
10
11
15
18
21
26
28
29
25
20
14
10
Sea temperature, °C
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Toulouse
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Toulouse
53
37
45
65
74
64
40
45
46
54
55
49
Daylight, hours per day
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Toulouse
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
Toulouse
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre). Toulouse: 1991-2020 normals, Toulouse / Blagnac (7 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromReykjavikToulouse
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 25 m
€77-94
TLS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 10 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MunichMUC
3 h 50 m
€275-453
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
MadridMAD
4 h 5 m
€222-314
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 20 m
€120-143
TLS · 7 km
DublinDUB
2 h 25 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
TLS · 7 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 35 m
€227-256
KEF · 37 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
CCF · 82 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
5 h 5 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
7 h 25 m
no fares
TLS · 7 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

MeasureReykjavikToulouse
Official languageIcelandicFrench
CurrencyIceland Krona (ISK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTCUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation8 m115 m
Main airportKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsToulouse-Blagnac Airport (TLS)7 km from centre80 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureReykjavikToulouse
City population138,772514,819
People per km²5694,352
Museums within 10 km2324
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre42101
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.