Route brief · WAS → KEF
Washington → Reykjavík
$461
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 23 – Sep 27 · 4 nights
IcelandairNonstop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefKEFReykjavíkWaterfalls, black beaches and the aurora — a stopover economy built on absurdly low fares.Best windowJun–Aug · Feb–Mar (aurora)AirportsKeflavík (KEF)All routes into ReykjavíkWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Reykjavík: Jun–Aug · Feb–Mar (aurora). Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Icelandair nonstop and takes about 6 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip. At $461 for 4,479 km each way, that works out to about $51 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Reykjavík, this fare ranks 6th — 1.6× the $286 we hold from Istanbul. We have 2 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The 7 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on Aug 8 — $481 then versus $479 now, across 4 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $461, on Sep 23.
- Wed, Sep 23$461
- Thu, Sep 24$479
- Fri, Sep 25$466
- Wed, Sep 30$589
- Wed, Oct 7$485
- Fri, Oct 9$690
- Fri, Oct 30$465
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Route facts
- Airports
- Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI) ↔ Keflavík (KEF)
- Flight time
- ~6 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~4,479 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Icelandair
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Jun–Aug · Feb–Mar (aurora)
WAS → KEF, answered.
How far in advance should I book WAS → Reykjavík?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Washington to Reykjavík?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Icelandair). The outbound leg runs around 6 hours.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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