VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Tallinn
54
match

Wins on 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.

CopenhagenTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen and Tallinn are level on 54.
CopenhagenTallinn
Score5454
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1718
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen leads by 11 points.11
CopenhagenTallinn
Score7362
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,183481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3739
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 13 points.13
CopenhagenTallinn
Score7562
Museums within 10 km8371
Museums within 2 km of centre5157
Share of museums within 2 km %6180
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Copenhagen leads by 21 points.21
CopenhagenTallinn
Score6746
Drinking venues within 4 km1,384462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5880
Nightclubs within 4 km6443
Nature & day trips. Copenhagen leads by 19 points.19
CopenhagenTallinn
Score5031
Protected land share 50 km %52
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %3953
Park area within 2 km138 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 20 points.20
CopenhagenTallinn
Score7151
Tourist attractions within 2 km5420
Park area within 2 km138 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 12 points.12
CopenhagenTallinn
Score7462
Notable places within 2 km273135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 18 points.18
CopenhagenTallinn
Score5270
Price level global87.862.4
Daily budget€214€143
Year-round weather. Copenhagen leads by 7 points.7
CopenhagenTallinn
Score5548
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months34
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
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
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. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenTallinn
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
€90-98
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 45 m
€143-174
CPH · 8 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 15 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€153-210
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 55 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 25 m
€58-87
CPH · 8 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
DohaDOH
6 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 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

MeasureCopenhagenTallinn
Official languageDanishEstonian
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m28 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenTallinn
City population667,099457,572
People per km²7,3392,871
Museums within 10 km7215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre8263
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). 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. 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.