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| ⭐️ Overall Score | 228 reviews |
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| 🌍 Region | Europe |
| 🚩 Country | Iceland |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 7 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 24 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌧 13°C 55°F + Humid (89%) = feels 12°C 54°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 3 US AQI 🍃 good |
| 💨 Air quality (annual avg) | 😐 57 US AQI 🍃 good |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Vodafone |
| 💸 1,000 ISK in USD | USD 7.29 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | ISK 10,000 = USD 73 |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💳 Yes, cards OK almost everywhere |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Reykjavík Coworking Unit |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 👌 Yes, drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 9% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 120,000 people |
| 🏞 Foreign land ownership allowed | Yes |
| 👫 Gender ratio (overall) | 👨 49% 👱♀️ 51% |
| 👫 Gender ratio (young adults) | 👨 51% 👱♀️ 49% |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | Airbnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | IcelandAir |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Finnair |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $3,752 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $2,579 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $5,142 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $1,469 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $1,094 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $270 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $2,128 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $100 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (150 listings) | $3,843 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $126 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $11 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $2 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $7 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $4 |
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Fast internet
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Many Nomad List members have been
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Very easy to do business
✅ High quality of education
✅ Great hospitals
✅ Roads are very safe
✅ Great freedom of speech
✅ Democratic
✅ Everyone speaks English
✅ Very safe for women
✅ Family friendly
✅ Very friendly to LGBTQ+
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Expensive
❌ Not much to do
❌ Cold now
❌ Gets very cold in the winter
❌ Very humid now
❌ Not many members right now
❌ Very difficult to make friends
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
| Feels | 28-2° freezing | 30-1° freezing | 0° freezing | 457° cold | 489° cold | 5211° cool | 6116° cool | 5412° cool | 5010° cold | 415° cold | 362° cold | 28-2° freezing |
| Real | 341° very cold | 373° very cold | 373° very cold | 489° cold | 5010° cold | 5412° cool | 6116° cool | 5513° cool | 5211° cool | 457° cold | 394° very cold | 341° very cold |
| Humidity | damp 77% | nice 70% | damp 72% | nice 69% | nice 69% | nice 63% | nice 68% | nice 64% | damp 72% | nice 69% | damp 77% | damp 74% |
| Rain | rainy 83mm | rainy 56mm | rainy 56mm | rainy 57mm | dry 27mm | dry 15mm | dry 39mm | dry 25mm | rainy 91mm | dry 38mm | dry 32mm | rainy 55mm |
| Cloud | cloudy 75% | cloudy 76% | cloudy 80% | cloudy 82% | cloudy 70% | cloudy 60% | cloudy 71% | cloudy 67% | cloudy 77% | cloudy 77% | cloudy 77% | cloudy 68% |
| Sun | safe 0 UVI | safe 0 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 3 UVI | sunscreen 4 UVI | sunscreen 4 UVI | safe 3 UVI | safe 2 UVI | safe 1 UVI | safe 0 UVI | safe 0 UVI |
| Nomad List members | 3 people | 3 people | 4 people | 3 people | 3 people | 5 people | 3 people | 3 people | 3 people | 2 people | 4 people | 3 people |
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