VacationSelector

Reykjavik or Valencia?

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.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

ReykjavikValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 7 points.7
ReykjavikValencia
Score6067
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km3312
Coast distance0 km3 km
Water distance0 km3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 29 points.29
ReykjavikValencia
Score4978
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2611,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2933
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 5 points.5
ReykjavikValencia
Score5055
Museums within 10 km3459
Museums within 2 km of centre2326
Share of museums within 2 km %6844
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 43 points.43
ReykjavikValencia
Score2770
Drinking venues within 4 km1921,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre166957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8663
Nightclubs within 4 km10108
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 6 points.6
ReykjavikValencia
Score5953
Protected land share 50 km %1610
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5664
Park area within 2 km28 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik and Valencia are level on 42.
ReykjavikValencia
Score4242
Tourist attractions within 2 km2112
Park area within 2 km28 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Valencia leads by 4 points.4
ReykjavikValencia
Score4852
Notable places within 2 km6178
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Valencia leads by 30 points.30
ReykjavikValencia
Score4171
Price level global102.860.8
Daily budget€243€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 47 points.47
ReykjavikValencia
Score3784
Monthly daytime high3.2 °C to 14.9 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 97 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months08
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromReykjavikValencia
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
3 h 15 m
€110-130
1 stop
ALC · 133 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
4 h 0 m
€160-192
KEF · 37 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
4 h 35 m
€255-375
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
MadridMAD
4 h 5 m
€222-314
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
3 h 10 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
2 h 15 m
€110-139
VLC · 9 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
5 h 5 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
VLC · 9 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

MeasureReykjavikValencia
Official languageIcelandicSpanish
CurrencyIceland Krona (ISK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTCUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation8 m15 m
Main airportKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureReykjavikValencia
City population138,772840,792
People per km²5696,242
Museums within 10 km2346
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre4292
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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.