Reykjavik astrocartography
Reykjavik sits at 64.15°N, 21.9°W — far enough from the equator that the year swings hard between long light and long dark. Which of your planetary lines fall near it, and how closely, depends entirely on when and where you were born.
Which of your lines reach Reykjavik?
⚠️ A place has no fixed character
Any page telling you Reykjavik is universally a “Jupiter city” is describing something that does not exist. The lines that cross it are different for every person born. The reading below is the only way to know which of yours reach here.
Do any of your lines reach Reykjavik?
Three things, and the reading is yours. No account, no email, nothing kept.
What Reykjavik’s position does to a reading
Astrocartography is geometry before it is anything else, so where a city sits changes how it behaves. These are facts about Reykjavik rather than about you — they hold whoever is reading.
How close is close, here
Distances here are measured as real ground: one degree of orb is 111 km, the same width everywhere on earth. That matters at Reykjavik, because a degree of longitude here is only about 49 km — 56% narrower. Older software that measures overhead lines in longitude will therefore report a wider figure than we do for the same city. Neither is wrong; ours describes a distance you could actually walk.
Some lines stop before they arrive
A rising or setting line is a horizon curve, and it exists only where the body actually crosses the horizon. At 64.15°N that means a body within 25.9° of the celestial equator. The Moon reaches 28.6° at its extremes, so lunar horizon lines genuinely stop before they get this far from the equator when it is at its highest. When that happens there is no line at Reykjavik to be close to — and we end the arc rather than bending it to fill the gap.
The same geometry, in daylight
The equation behind a rising line is the equation behind sunrise, so you can watch it work. At the summer solstice Reykjavik gets about 20 hours 28 minutes of daylight, and at the winter solstice about 3 hours 32 minutes. The further a place sits from the equator, the steeper that swing — and the more slanted its horizon lines run.
The clock against the sun
Overhead and underfoot lines are meridians — they depend on longitude, not on what a clock happens to show. Reykjavik’s clocks run 1h 28m ahead of its own sun on standard time, so the instant a planet actually crosses this meridian is not the instant local midday suggests. Any planet standing overhead here has its opposite line running down the far meridian at 158.1°E, half a world away.
Places near Reykjavik
All cities →Nothing else in the gazetteer sits within a degree of orb of Reykjavik, so a line that misses here misses on its own. These are the nearest places to weigh it against.
| Place | Distance | In orb degrees |
|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh astrocartography · United Kingdom | 1,374 km | 12.34° |
| Nuuk astrocartography · Greenland | 1,430 km | 12.84° |
| Dublin astrocartography · Ireland | 1,495 km | 13.43° |
| Manchester astrocartography · United Kingdom | 1,628 km | 14.62° |
| York astrocartography · United Kingdom | 1,631 km | 14.65° |
| Oslo astrocartography · Norway | 1,747 km | 15.69° |
| London astrocartography · United Kingdom | 1,890 km | 16.98° |
| Longyearbyen astrocartography · Svalbard | 1,992 km | 17.89° |
Common questions about Reykjavik
Which planetary lines run through Reykjavik?
That depends on the day, hour, and place you were born — lines are personal, and two people born days apart can have completely different ones crossing Reykjavik. Enter your birth details on this page to see which of yours pass nearby and how close they run.
Is Reykjavik a good place to live?
There is no universally good or difficult city. Reykjavik will hold some kinds of work and make others harder, depending on which of your lines reach it and how closely. Every line offers something and asks something in return, and we show both halves.
How close does a line have to be to Reykjavik to count?
We measure the distance from the city to the line as real ground — about 111 km to the degree, the same everywhere on earth. Inside roughly half a degree is a direct hit; out to about two degrees still reads. Because a degree of longitude at Reykjavik's latitude is only about 49 km, older software that measures overhead lines in longitude will quote a different figure for the same city.
Do some planetary lines never reach Reykjavik?
Yes, and that is real rather than a limitation of the software. At 64.15°N only a body within 25.9° of the celestial equator rises and sets at all. Anything beyond that is circumpolar here, so its rising and setting lines end before they arrive. We stop the arc where it truly stops rather than drawing a line that does not exist.
Where exactly is Reykjavik?
Reykjavik sits at 64.1466° latitude, -21.9426° longitude, keeping Atlantic/Reykjavik time, with a population of about 131,136. Those coordinates are the point every line distance on this page is measured from.
What if none of my lines are near Reykjavik?
Then we say so and leave it there. Most of the world is quiet ground for most charts, and a reading that finds something meaningful in every city on earth is not telling you anything. Quiet ground is not bad ground — it simply asks less of you.