VacationSelector

Reykjavik or Zadar?

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, 1 point apart

Reykjavik
46
match

Wins on places to eat and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

ReykjavikZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 13 points.13
ReykjavikZadar
Score6073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km3349
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Reykjavik leads by 24 points.24
ReykjavikZadar
Score4925
Restaurants within 2 km of centre261143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2911
Museums & heritage. Reykjavik leads by 17 points.17
ReykjavikZadar
Score5033
Museums within 10 km348
Museums within 2 km of centre238
Share of museums within 2 km %68100
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Reykjavik leads by 2 points.2
ReykjavikZadar
Score2725
Drinking venues within 4 km192194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre166139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8672
Nightclubs within 4 km104
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 4 points.4
ReykjavikZadar
Score5955
Protected land share 50 km %1612
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5647
Park area within 2 km28 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Reykjavik leads by 11 points.11
ReykjavikZadar
Score4231
Tourist attractions within 2 km219
Park area within 2 km28 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Reykjavik leads by 17 points.17
ReykjavikZadar
Score4831
Notable places within 2 km6123
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 39 points.39
ReykjavikZadar
Score4180
Price level global102.848.5
Daily budget€243€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 32 points.32
ReykjavikZadar
Score3769
Monthly daytime high3.2 °C to 14.9 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 97 mm25 mm to 117 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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Zadar
9
10
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
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromReykjavikZadar
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 10 m
€129-176
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
RomeFCO, CIA
4 h 35 m
€255-375
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 45 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 10 m
€174-231
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
3 h 50 m
€275-453
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 35 m
€227-256
KEF · 37 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 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

MeasureReykjavikZadar
Official languageIcelandicCroatian
CurrencyIceland Krona (ISK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTCUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation8 m5 m
Main airportKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureReykjavikZadar
City population138,77270,779
People per km²569
Museums within 10 km231
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre4217
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Reykjavik or Zadar somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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.