VacationSelector

Reykjavik or Venice?

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 places to eat with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on sights concentration and year-round weather 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.

ReykjavikVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 9 points.9
ReykjavikVenice
Score6069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km3320
Coast distance0 km4 km
Water distance0 km4 km
Places to eat. Reykjavik leads by 4 points.4
ReykjavikVenice
Score4945
Restaurants within 2 km of centre261750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2910
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 22 points.22
ReykjavikVenice
Score5072
Museums within 10 km3457
Museums within 2 km of centre2345
Share of museums within 2 km %6879
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Venice leads by 8 points.8
ReykjavikVenice
Score2735
Drinking venues within 4 km192342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre166306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8689
Nightclubs within 4 km103
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 42 points.42
ReykjavikVenice
Score5917
Protected land share 50 km %164
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5670
Park area within 2 km28 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 15 points.15
ReykjavikVenice
Score4257
Tourist attractions within 2 km2172
Park area within 2 km28 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 35 points.35
ReykjavikVenice
Score4883
Notable places within 2 km61464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Venice leads by 27 points.27
ReykjavikVenice
Score4168
Price level global102.864.9
Daily budget€243€155
Year-round weather. Venice leads by 29 points.29
ReykjavikVenice
Score3766
Monthly daytime high3.2 °C to 14.9 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 97 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromReykjavikVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 0 m
€78-139
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
4 h 5 m
€222-314
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
4 h 10 m
€224-296
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
4 h 35 m
€255-375
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
VCE · 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 2026-09 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

MeasureReykjavikVenice
Official languageIcelandicItalian
CurrencyIceland Krona (ISK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTCUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation8 m2 m
Main airportKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureReykjavikVenice
City population138,772250,369
People per km²569602
Museums within 10 km2352
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre4246
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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.