96 curated places · Ring road and beyond

The places you want to see, arranged into a drive that works.

Pick the places you want to see. We turn them into a road trip — days, driving and roads worked out.

The loop

Three steps. The third is where the work is.

A list of places is not a trip. Ordering them into days you can actually drive, in the light you actually have, is the part we built.

REYKJAVÍKHÖFN
Route 1, 1,396 km, with the first stops of the example plan
01

Pick places

Browse by region and category. Every place has an add to trip button, so the itinerary builds itself while you read rather than starting from an empty map.

02

We build the days

Your places are ordered geographically and split into days that fit the daylight on your dates, with overnight stops in real towns with beds, as close as possible to where the day ends.

03

Drive with confidence

Each day carries its own warnings: fuel and food gaps, gravel and F-road access, and the historical opening window for any mountain road on the route. Driving time already allows for single-lane bridges and weather.

Example output
5 days · 5 to 9 October
667 km
13h 21m driving
Day 1 · Keflavík → Flúðir
Þingvellir · daylight 10h 55m
158 km
Day 2 · Flúðir · day trip
Geysir & Strokkur, Gullfoss · daylight 10h 48m
66 km
Day 3 · Flúðir → Vík
Seljalandsfoss, Skógafoss · daylight 10h 44m
152 km
Day 4 · Vík → Kirkjubæjarklaustur
Reynisfjara, Fjaðrárgljúfur · daylight 10h 38m
Fuel gap — 75 km between Vík and Kirkjubæjarklaustur with no fuel stations. Fill up in Vík.
101 km
Day 5 · Kirkjubæjarklaustur → Höfn
Jökulsárlón, Diamond Beach · daylight 10h 29m
Fuel gap — 190 km from Klaustur to Höfn with 2 fuel stations; after the last, in Öræfi (near Hof), about 95 km with none. Fill up in Klaustur.
190 km
Curated gems

Written by us, checked against the road.

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Icebergs drifting through the Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon towards the sea
Jökulsárlón
South Iceland · Route 1
Icebergs calve off Breiðamerkurjökull and drift out to sea. For Diamond Beach, drive over the bridge to the car park on the beach side — don't walk across the bridge.
What the planner knows

A 200 km day in December runs out of light before the second stop.

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Sun altitude through the day, Reykjavík. Vertical scale is true to solar noon altitude.

Daylight for your dates

Sunrise and sunset computed per stop and per date. Reykjavík has about 4h 15m of daylight in mid-December and close to 21h in mid-June, so the same route is two different trips.

Mountain road history

Past opening and closing dates for F-roads, from the Icelandic Road and Coastal Administration. We show the historical window for your dates and never claim a road is open. Check road.is before you drive.

Fuel and food gaps

Stations, shops and restaurants are matched to the stretches you actually drive, and long gaps are flagged on the day they fall on rather than buried in a list.

Realistic day load

Driving time is estimated at Icelandic road speeds, with a margin for single-lane bridges and weather, and time at each stop included. Days beyond roughly 400 km are split rather than shortened on paper.