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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
The Viru Gate, Tallinn
TallinnThe Viru Gate

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Tallinn by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Belfast or Tallinn?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Belfast for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Belfast’s own page.

Choose Tallinn for

  • wellness
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Tallinn’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Belfast 20, Tallinn 28: Tallinn leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Tallinn 52: Tallinn leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Tallinn 68: Tallinn leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Tallinn 44: Belfast leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Tallinn 55: Belfast leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Tallinn 58: Belfast leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Tallinn 60: Tallinn leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Tallinn 72: Tallinn leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Tallinn 40: Belfast leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Tallinn 47: Belfast leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Tallinn 50: Belfast leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast 25, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Tallinn.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Belfast
51match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Tallinn
52match

Wins on wellness and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Belfast in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Tallinn in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre25 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre56 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 km816
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.