VacationSelector

Edinburgh or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Tallinn
54
match

Wins on value for money 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.

EdinburghTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh leads by 1 points.1
EdinburghTallinn
Score5554
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2018
Coast distance3 km0 km
Water distance3 km0 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 8 points.8
EdinburghTallinn
Score7062
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3539
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 5 points.5
EdinburghTallinn
Score5762
Museums within 10 km3071
Museums within 2 km of centre2257
Share of museums within 2 km %7380
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 18 points.18
EdinburghTallinn
Score6446
Drinking venues within 4 km1,193462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7480
Nightclubs within 4 km6543
Nature & day trips. Edinburgh leads by 4 points.4
EdinburghTallinn
Score3531
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %8553
Park area within 2 km166 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 21 points.21
EdinburghTallinn
Score7251
Tourist attractions within 2 km8720
Park area within 2 km166 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 2 points.2
EdinburghTallinn
Score6062
Notable places within 2 km126135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 16 points.16
EdinburghTallinn
Score5470
Price level global84.962.4
Daily budget—€143
Year-round weather. Edinburgh leads by 3 points.3
EdinburghTallinn
Score5148
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
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. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghTallinn
RovaniemiRVN
2 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 35 m
€195-238
2 stops
EDI · 11 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 15 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
RigaRIX
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
5 h 50 m
no fares
GLA · 78 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

MeasureEdinburghTallinn
Official languageEnglishEstonian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation47 m28 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghTallinn
City population488,050457,572
People per km²1,8842,871
Museums within 10 km3215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre7863
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). 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. 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.