VacationSelector

Bruges or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Bruges
44
match

Wins on good for families and year-round weather with your weighting.

Tallinn
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BrugesTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 46 points.46
BrugesTallinn
Score854
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km118
Coast distance14 km0 km
Water distance14 km0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 5 points.5
BrugesTallinn
Score5762
Restaurants within 2 km of centre443481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3239
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 5 points.5
BrugesTallinn
Score5762
Museums within 10 km3071
Museums within 2 km of centre2457
Share of museums within 2 km %8080
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Tallinn leads by 12 points.12
BrugesTallinn
Score3446
Drinking venues within 4 km292462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8080
Nightclubs within 4 km843
Nature & day trips. Tallinn leads by 5 points.5
BrugesTallinn
Score2631
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6553
Park area within 2 km59 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Bruges leads by 9 points.9
BrugesTallinn
Score6051
Tourist attractions within 2 km5220
Park area within 2 km59 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 22 points.22
BrugesTallinn
Score4062
Notable places within 2 km40135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 10 points.10
BrugesTallinn
Score6070
Price level global76.262.4
Daily budget€180€143
Year-round weather. Bruges leads by 8 points.8
BrugesTallinn
Score5648
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months14
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
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
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
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
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. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBrugesTallinn
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
RovaniemiRVN
3 h 10 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 94 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
4 h 50 m
no fares
BRU · 94 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureBrugesTallinn
Official languageFrench, German, DutchEstonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation2 m28 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesTallinn
City population118,509457,572
People per km²8402,871
Museums within 10 km3815
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre5163
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.