96 curated places · Ring road and beyond

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

    Collect gems as you browse. We build the days around them — distances, daylight, and somewhere to sleep at the end of each one.

    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, 1,322 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
    676 km
    13h 31m driving
    Day 1 · Keflavík → Flúðir
    Þingvellir · daylight 10h 55m
    162 km
    Day 2 · Flúðir → Flúðir
    Geysir & Strokkur, Gullfoss · daylight 10h 48m
    68 km
    Day 3 · Flúðir → Vík
    Seljalandsfoss, Skógafoss · daylight 10h 44m
    154 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.
    95 km
    Day 5 · Kirkjubæjarklaustur → Höfn
    Diamond Beach, Jökulsárlón · daylight 10h 29m
    Fuel gap — 200 km between Klaustur and Höfn. Only one station at Freysnes (Skaftafell). Fill up at every opportunity.
    197 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. Diamond Beach is 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.