VacationSelector

Cologne or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Cologne
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families with your weighting.

Tallinn
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

CologneTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 54 points.54
CologneTallinn
Score054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4018
Coast distance256 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 10 points.10
CologneTallinn
Score7262
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,142481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3539
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 2 points.2
CologneTallinn
Score6062
Museums within 10 km4771
Museums within 2 km of centre2757
Share of museums within 2 km %5780
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Cologne leads by 18 points.18
CologneTallinn
Score6446
Drinking venues within 4 km1,107462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre727370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6680
Nightclubs within 4 km9043
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 40 points.40
CologneTallinn
Score7131
Protected land share 50 km %532
Landscape blanket share 50 km %520
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km118 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 21 points.21
CologneTallinn
Score7251
Tourist attractions within 2 km4320
Park area within 2 km118 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km61
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 9 points.9
CologneTallinn
Score5362
Notable places within 2 km81135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 10 points.10
CologneTallinn
Score6070
Price level global75.962.4
Daily budget€163€143
Year-round weather. Cologne leads by 12 points.12
CologneTallinn
Score6048
Monthly daytime high6.3 °C to 25 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall48 mm to 81 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months04
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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Cologne
No coastline within reach
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1
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. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCologneTallinn
AntalyaAYT
3 h 30 m
€204-239
1 stop
CGN · 15 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
RovaniemiRVN
3 h 0 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
MunichMUC
1 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 5 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€126-182
CGN · 15 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
RigaRIX
2 h 10 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 45 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
5 h 0 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

MeasureCologneTallinn
Official languageGermanEstonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation59 m28 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneTallinn
City population1,024,621457,572
People per km²2,5302,871
Museums within 10 km4015
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre8463
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). 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.