VacationSelector

Reykjavik or Vienna?

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

Vienna
✓ Best match
59
match

Wins on nightlife and museums & heritage 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.

ReykjavikVienna
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
ReykjavikVienna
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3322
Coast distance0 km10,000 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Vienna leads by 28 points.28
ReykjavikVienna
Score4977
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2611,617
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2937
Museums & heritage. Vienna leads by 31 points.31
ReykjavikVienna
Score5081
Museums within 10 km34192
Museums within 2 km of centre23110
Share of museums within 2 km %6857
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Vienna leads by 47 points.47
ReykjavikVienna
Score2774
Drinking venues within 4 km1921,948
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1661,089
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8656
Nightclubs within 4 km10108
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 27 points.27
ReykjavikVienna
Score5932
Protected land share 50 km %164
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km28 hectares93 hectares
Good for families. Vienna leads by 27 points.27
ReykjavikVienna
Score4269
Tourist attractions within 2 km2146
Park area within 2 km28 hectares93 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km14
Sights concentration. Vienna leads by 27 points.27
ReykjavikVienna
Score4875
Notable places within 2 km61287
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Vienna leads by 18 points.18
ReykjavikVienna
Score4159
Price level global102.876.9
Daily budget€243€160
Year-round weather. Vienna leads by 24 points.24
ReykjavikVienna
Score3761
Monthly daytime high3.2 °C to 14.9 °C3.3 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 97 mm38 mm to 80 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
Vienna
3
6
11
17
21
25
27
27
21
15
9
4
Sea temperature, °C
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Vienna
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Vienna
42
38
52
42
80
70
78
71
64
47
46
46
Daylight, hours per day
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Vienna
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0
Vienna
2
4
5
7
8
8
9
9
6
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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromReykjavikVienna
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 10 m
€105-189
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 40 m
€109-136
VIE · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 55 m
€112-162
VIE · 18 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
1 h 50 m
€180-245
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
1 h 25 m
€143-152
VIE · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
8 h 40 m
€736-786
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BerlinBER
3 h 30 m
€245-365
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 15 m
€171-190
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
4 h 0 m
€160-192
KEF · 37 km
1 h 25 m
€49-71
VIE · 18 km
ZurichZRH
3 h 45 m
€365-480
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 25 m
€170-237
1 stop
VIE · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
9 h 25 m
no fares
VIE · 18 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

MeasureReykjavikVienna
Official languageIcelandicGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyIceland Krona (ISK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTCUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation8 m151 m
Main airportKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre204 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureReykjavikVienna
City population138,7722,028,289
People per km²5694,890
Museums within 10 km23152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre42113
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.