New York → Reykjavík flights

JFK–Reykjavik fares hover near $388, with a moderate spread

Key takeaways

• $388 median fare across 30 daily snapshots — a reasonable benchmark for budgeting this route.
• Bottom quartile fares sit at $348 or below, meaning roughly 1 in 4 observed prices beat that mark.
• Top quartile fares climb to $402+, with a ceiling of $418 recorded in the sample.
• A 32% spread between low ($316) and high ($418) points to real but not extreme volatility.
• Sample covers 30 days of cached fares — enough to trust the median as a working target.

30-day price trend

See full numbers and stats on the JFK → KEF price history page.

The full picture

Over the 30-day window we tracked, JFK–Reykjavik fares ranged from $316 to $418, with a median of $388. That 32% spread is moderate — not the kind of wild swing that makes timing everything, but enough that patient shoppers can realistically beat the median. The bottom quartile of fares came in at $348 or under, so treating anything in the mid-$300s as a good deal, and anything near $400 as a normal-to-high fare, is a fair mental model for this route.

We don't have booking-lead-time data in this snapshot (i.e., how price changes as departure approaches), so we can't say when in the horizon prices typically soften — only what the distribution of cached fares looked like across the 30 days observed. What we can say is that the gap between the $348 p25 and $402 p75 gives you a workable range: if a fare quote lands near or below $350, it's in the cheaper half of what we've seen; above $400, you're paying a premium relative to recent history.

We don't have visibility into a dominant carrier or day-of-week patterns for this route in the current dataset, so we're not going to speculate about airline-specific pricing behavior or claim certain departure days are cheaper — that kind of granular pattern isn't supported by what we measured. The honest caveat: a 32% spread with a $388 median means the market for this route is moderately variable, but our data reflects cached fare snapshots over one 30-day period, not a full seasonal cycle, so treat these numbers as a recent baseline rather than a permanent rule.

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