VacationSelector

Belfast or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Belfast
48
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Tallinn
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

BelfastTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 6 points.6
BelfastTallinn
Score4854
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1018
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 6 points.6
BelfastTallinn
Score5662
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3139
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 33 points.33
BelfastTallinn
Score2962
Museums within 10 km1871
Museums within 2 km of centre657
Share of museums within 2 km %3380
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Belfast leads by 2 points.2
BelfastTallinn
Score4846
Drinking venues within 4 km550462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6380
Nightclubs within 4 km2943
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 22 points.22
BelfastTallinn
Score5331
Protected land share 50 km %192
Landscape blanket share 50 km %130
Land share of disc %6553
Park area within 2 km68 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 3 points.3
BelfastTallinn
Score4851
Tourist attractions within 2 km1620
Park area within 2 km68 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 20 points.20
BelfastTallinn
Score4262
Notable places within 2 km43135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 16 points.16
BelfastTallinn
Score5470
Price level global84.962.4
Daily budget—€143
Year-round weather. Belfast leads by 3 points.3
BelfastTallinn
Score5148
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 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
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBelfastTallinn
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
RovaniemiRVN
3 h 10 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 35 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
RigaRIX
2 h 55 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 5 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
2 h 50 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

MeasureBelfastTallinn
Official languageEnglishEstonian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m28 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastTallinn
City population345,006457,572
People per km²3,0002,871
Museums within 10 km815
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4463
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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.

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.