VacationSelector

Dresden or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Dresden
48
match

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

Tallinn
✓ Best match
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.

DresdenTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 54 points.54
DresdenTallinn
Score054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2218
Coast distance267 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 1 points.1
DresdenTallinn
Score6162
Restaurants within 2 km of centre422481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4239
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 8 points.8
DresdenTallinn
Score5462
Museums within 10 km6671
Museums within 2 km of centre3457
Share of museums within 2 km %5280
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Tallinn leads by 4 points.4
DresdenTallinn
Score4246
Drinking venues within 4 km359462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7480
Nightclubs within 4 km4343
Nature & day trips. Dresden leads by 8 points.8
DresdenTallinn
Score3931
Protected land share 50 km %142
Landscape blanket share 50 km %90
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km80 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 8 points.8
DresdenTallinn
Score5951
Tourist attractions within 2 km3220
Park area within 2 km80 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 9 points.9
DresdenTallinn
Score5362
Notable places within 2 km82135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 10 points.10
DresdenTallinn
Score6070
Price level global75.962.4
Daily budget€163€143
Year-round weather. Dresden leads by 14 points.14
DresdenTallinn
Score6248
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months44
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
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
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
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. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenTallinn
RovaniemiRVN
2 h 40 m
no fares
BER · 147 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 5 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 55 m
€91-151
PRG · 112 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 15 m
€205-234
PRG · 112 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
4 h 10 m
no fares
PRG · 112 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

MeasureDresdenTallinn
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
Elevation126 m28 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDresdenTallinn
City population564,904457,572
People per km²1,7202,871
Museums within 10 km7015
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7763
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.