VacationSelector

Barcelona or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Barcelona
✓ Best match
71
match

Wins on nightlife and year-round weather with your weighting.

Tallinn
54
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

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

BarcelonaTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Barcelona leads by 11 points.11
BarcelonaTallinn
Score6554
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km2018
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Barcelona leads by 28 points.28
BarcelonaTallinn
Score9062
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,786481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4139
Museums & heritage. Barcelona leads by 6 points.6
BarcelonaTallinn
Score6862
Museums within 10 km10571
Museums within 2 km of centre4957
Share of museums within 2 km %4780
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Barcelona leads by 36 points.36
BarcelonaTallinn
Score8246
Drinking venues within 4 km2,711462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,641370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6180
Nightclubs within 4 km24543
Nature & day trips. Barcelona leads by 19 points.19
BarcelonaTallinn
Score5031
Protected land share 50 km %102
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5153
Park area within 2 km49 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Barcelona leads by 14 points.14
BarcelonaTallinn
Score6551
Tourist attractions within 2 km6020
Park area within 2 km49 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Barcelona leads by 11 points.11
BarcelonaTallinn
Score7362
Notable places within 2 km258135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Barcelona leads by 1 points.1
BarcelonaTallinn
Score7170
Price level global60.862.4
Daily budget€122€143
Year-round weather. Barcelona leads by 30 points.30
BarcelonaTallinn
Score7848
Monthly daytime high13.9 °C to 28.9 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall27 mm to 83 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months54
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
Barcelona
14
14
16
19
22
26
28
29
26
22
18
15
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Barcelona
14
13
13
14
17
21
24
25
24
21
17
15
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Barcelona
41
32
40
47
44
27
27
51
83
82
45
36
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Barcelona
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Barcelona
5
5
7
8
8
9
10
9
7
6
4
4
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. Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBarcelonaTallinn
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€37-96
BCN · 13 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
RovaniemiRVN
4 h 25 m
no fares
BCN · 13 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€79-101
BCN · 13 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€62-99
BCN · 13 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
€33-92
BCN · 13 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
PalmaPMI
55 m
€40-57
BCN · 13 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 10 m
€132-158
BCN · 13 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€562-701
BCN · 13 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
DohaDOH
6 h 25 m
€282-445
2 stops
BCN · 13 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 55 m
€459-799
2 stops
BCN · 13 km
8 h 55 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

MeasureBarcelonaTallinn
Official languageSpanishEstonian
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 number112112
Elevation9 m28 m
Main airportJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre229 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarcelonaTallinn
City population1,731,649457,572
People per km²17,0942,871
Museums within 10 km9515
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre12863
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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.