VacationSelector

Bucharest 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, 1 point apart

Bucharest
55
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Tallinn
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

BucharestTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 54 points.54
BucharestTallinn
Score054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km318
Coast distance198 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Bucharest leads by 5 points.5
BucharestTallinn
Score6762
Restaurants within 2 km of centre667481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4139
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 13 points.13
BucharestTallinn
Score4962
Museums within 10 km7371
Museums within 2 km of centre4057
Share of museums within 2 km %5580
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bucharest leads by 16 points.16
BucharestTallinn
Score6246
Drinking venues within 4 km1,017462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5380
Nightclubs within 4 km8043
Nature & day trips. Bucharest leads by 5 points.5
BucharestTallinn
Score3631
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km133 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 17 points.17
BucharestTallinn
Score6851
Tourist attractions within 2 km4520
Park area within 2 km133 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 1 points.1
BucharestTallinn
Score6162
Notable places within 2 km130135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 15 points.15
BucharestTallinn
Score8570
Price level global40.962.4
Daily budget€99€143
Year-round weather. Bucharest leads by 15 points.15
BucharestTallinn
Score6348
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 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
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Bucharest
No coastline within reach
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
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
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
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. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBucharestTallinn
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 45 m
no fares
OTP · 18 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 45 m
€140-237
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 45 m
€130-202
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
3 h 0 m
no fares
BBU · 10 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

MeasureBucharestTallinn
Official languageRomanianEstonian
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation70 m28 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestTallinn
City population1,716,961457,572
People per km²7,5972,871
Museums within 10 km4115
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6863
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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. 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.

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.