VacationSelector

Reykjavik or Warsaw?

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.

Warsaw
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on value for money 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.

ReykjavikWarsaw
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 60 points.60
ReykjavikWarsaw
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3326
Coast distance0 km238 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Warsaw leads by 23 points.23
ReykjavikWarsaw
Score4972
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2611,222
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2934
Museums & heritage. Warsaw leads by 13 points.13
ReykjavikWarsaw
Score5063
Museums within 10 km34107
Museums within 2 km of centre2360
Share of museums within 2 km %6856
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Warsaw leads by 35 points.35
ReykjavikWarsaw
Score2762
Drinking venues within 4 km1921,005
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre166648
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8664
Nightclubs within 4 km10104
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 4 points.4
ReykjavikWarsaw
Score5955
Protected land share 50 km %1627
Landscape blanket share 50 km %019
Land share of disc %56100
Park area within 2 km28 hectares107 hectares
Good for families. Warsaw leads by 28 points.28
ReykjavikWarsaw
Score4270
Tourist attractions within 2 km2142
Park area within 2 km28 hectares107 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Warsaw leads by 28 points.28
ReykjavikWarsaw
Score4876
Notable places within 2 km61299
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Warsaw leads by 38 points.38
ReykjavikWarsaw
Score4179
Price level global102.849
Daily budget€243€133
Year-round weather. Warsaw leads by 22 points.22
ReykjavikWarsaw
Score3759
Monthly daytime high3.2 °C to 14.9 °C0.9 °C to 25.2 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 97 mm29 mm to 83 mm
Dry months06
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
Warsaw
1
3
7
15
20
23
25
25
19
13
7
2
Sea temperature, °C
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Warsaw
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Warsaw
31
29
29
36
56
63
83
63
50
40
36
37
Daylight, hours per day
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Warsaw
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0
Warsaw
1
2
5
8
9
11
11
10
8
5
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre). Warsaw: 1991-2020 normals, Warszawa-Okecie (7.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromReykjavikWarsaw
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 45 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
4 h 0 m
€160-192
KEF · 37 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
5 h 35 m
€426-480
KEF · 37 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 0 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
WAW · 8 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

MeasureReykjavikWarsaw
Official languageIcelandicPolish
CurrencyIceland Krona (ISK)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTCUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation8 m118 m
Main airportKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsWarsaw Chopin Airport (WAW)8 km from centre170 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureReykjavikWarsaw
City population138,7721,862,402
People per km²5693,601
Museums within 10 km23117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4276
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.