VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Tallinn?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Tallinn
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AmsterdamTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 14 points.14
AmsterdamTallinn
Score4054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3318
Coast distance24 km0 km
Water distance24 km0 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 21 points.21
AmsterdamTallinn
Score8362
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4439
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 18 points.18
AmsterdamTallinn
Score8062
Museums within 10 km9871
Museums within 2 km of centre6957
Share of museums within 2 km %7080
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 24 points.24
AmsterdamTallinn
Score7046
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7080
Nightclubs within 4 km11443
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 29 points.29
AmsterdamTallinn
Score6031
Protected land share 50 km %212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8253
Park area within 2 km49 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 17 points.17
AmsterdamTallinn
Score6851
Tourist attractions within 2 km7420
Park area within 2 km49 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 6 points.6
AmsterdamTallinn
Score6862
Notable places within 2 km196135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 12 points.12
AmsterdamTallinn
Score5870
Price level global79.262.4
Daily budget€181€143
Year-round weather. Amsterdam leads by 9 points.9
AmsterdamTallinn
Score5748
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months04
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Tallinn
1
2
5
7
10
10
10
8
5
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamTallinn
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
RovaniemiRVN
3 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 12 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 5 m
€152-186
AMS · 12 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 25 m
€200-244
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€166-175
AMS · 12 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
€106-155
AMS · 12 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
6 h 0 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAmsterdamTallinn
Official languageDutchEstonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation-2 m28 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamTallinn
City population921,468457,572
People per km²4,2082,871
Museums within 10 km10115
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre9863
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.