VacationSelector

Calgary or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Calgary
38
match

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

Tallinn
✓ Best match
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.

CalgaryTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 54 points.54
CalgaryTallinn
Score054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km418
Coast distance649 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Calgary leads by 4 points.4
CalgaryTallinn
Score6662
Restaurants within 2 km of centre749481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3639
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 53 points.53
CalgaryTallinn
Score962
Museums within 10 km871
Museums within 2 km of centre357
Share of museums within 2 km %3880
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Tallinn leads by 2 points.2
CalgaryTallinn
Score4446
Drinking venues within 4 km465462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre343370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7480
Nightclubs within 4 km1943
Nature & day trips. Calgary leads by 5 points.5
CalgaryTallinn
Score3631
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km142 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 10 points.10
CalgaryTallinn
Score4151
Tourist attractions within 2 km320
Park area within 2 km142 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 23 points.23
CalgaryTallinn
Score3962
Notable places within 2 km37135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 16 points.16
CalgaryTallinn
Score5470
Price level global8462.4
Daily budget€143
Year-round weather. Calgary leads by 9 points.9
CalgaryTallinn
Score5748
Monthly daytime high-0.7 °C to 24.8 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 106 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months84
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
Calgary
0
-1
4
11
16
20
25
23
19
12
4
0
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Calgary
No coastline within reach
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Calgary
9
13
19
28
58
106
44
47
33
21
17
17
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Calgary
9
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
Calgary
No sunshine record
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. Calgary: 1991-2020 normals, Calgary Int'l CS (8.2 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCalgaryTallinn
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 50 m
€182-359
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 55 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 15 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
1 h 30 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 5 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
2 h 55 m
€237-270
1 stop
YYC · 9 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 50 m
no fares
YYC · 9 km
2 h 40 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCalgaryTallinn
Official languageFrench, EnglishEstonian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,045 m28 m
Main airportCalgary International Airport (YYC)9 km from centre106 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCalgaryTallinn
City population1,306,784457,572
People per km²1,5832,871
Museums within 10 km1315
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre6763
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). 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. 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.