VacationSelector

Bologna or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bologna
52
match

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

Tallinn
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

BolognaTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 54 points.54
BolognaTallinn
Score054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km218
Coast distance74 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 4 points.4
BolognaTallinn
Score5862
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2039
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 5 points.5
BolognaTallinn
Score6762
Museums within 10 km5871
Museums within 2 km of centre4357
Share of museums within 2 km %7480
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Bologna leads by 7 points.7
BolognaTallinn
Score5346
Drinking venues within 4 km720462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7480
Nightclubs within 4 km3043
Nature & day trips. Bologna leads by 8 points.8
BolognaTallinn
Score3931
Protected land share 50 km %72
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km119 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 4 points.4
BolognaTallinn
Score5551
Tourist attractions within 2 km3220
Park area within 2 km119 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 2 points.2
BolognaTallinn
Score6062
Notable places within 2 km120135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 2 points.2
BolognaTallinn
Score6870
Price level global64.962.4
Daily budget€155€143
Year-round weather. Bologna leads by 19 points.19
BolognaTallinn
Score6748
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Bologna
No coastline within reach
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaTallinn
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 40 m
€41-45
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 50 m
€120-185
1 stop
PSA · 118 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
TiranaTIA
1 h 35 m
€96-199
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
4 h 0 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBolognaTallinn
Official languageItalianEstonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation54 m28 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaTallinn
City population387,971457,572
People per km²2,7542,871
Museums within 10 km6615
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre6263
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.