VacationSelector

Catania 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

Catania
52
match

Wins on year-round weather and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Tallinn
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

CataniaTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Catania leads by 4 points.4
CataniaTallinn
Score5854
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km518
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 13 points.13
CataniaTallinn
Score4962
Restaurants within 2 km of centre637481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1439
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 3 points.3
CataniaTallinn
Score5962
Museums within 10 km3471
Museums within 2 km of centre2757
Share of museums within 2 km %7980
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Catania leads by 1 points.1
CataniaTallinn
Score4746
Drinking venues within 4 km537462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre403370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7580
Nightclubs within 4 km1843
Nature & day trips. Catania and Tallinn are level on 31.
CataniaTallinn
Score3131
Protected land share 50 km %102
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6153
Park area within 2 km11 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 15 points.15
CataniaTallinn
Score3651
Tourist attractions within 2 km2520
Park area within 2 km11 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 23 points.23
CataniaTallinn
Score3962
Notable places within 2 km37135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 2 points.2
CataniaTallinn
Score6870
Price level global64.962.4
Daily budget€155€143
Year-round weather. Catania leads by 29 points.29
CataniaTallinn
Score7748
Monthly daytime high15.8 °C to 34.5 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 83 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
Catania
16
16
19
21
26
31
34
35
30
26
21
17
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Catania
15
15
15
16
18
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Catania
65
45
42
32
18
11
9
9
49
51
71
83
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Catania
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Catania
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
7
6
5
4
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. Catania: 1991-2020 normals, Catania / Sigonella (18.9 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromCataniaTallinn
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 55 m
€45-94
CTA · 4 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 20 m
€38-50
CTA · 4 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
€106-144
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
€101-146
1 stop
CTA · 4 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 35 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
BolognaBLQ
1 h 40 m
€38-100
CTA · 4 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
RigaRIX
3 h 20 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 45 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 15 m
no fares
CTA · 4 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
3 h 5 m
no fares
CTA · 4 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

MeasureCataniaTallinn
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
Elevation7 m28 m
Main airportCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCataniaTallinn
City population311,584457,572
People per km²1,7042,871
Museums within 10 km2515
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre3063
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.