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The white medina above the harbour walls, Essaouira
EssaouiraThe white medina above the harbour walls
The Viru Gate, Tallinn
TallinnThe Viru Gate

Photos: Essaouira by Manel Cusido, Pexels License; Tallinn by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Essaouira or Tallinn?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Essaouira for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Essaouira’s own page.

Choose Tallinn for

  • day trips
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Tallinn’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Essaouira 47, Tallinn 28: Essaouira leads by 19 points.
Food & drink. Essaouira 44, Tallinn 52: Tallinn leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Essaouira 48, Tallinn 68: Tallinn leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Essaouira 14, Tallinn 44: Tallinn leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Essaouira 57, Tallinn 55: Essaouira leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Essaouira 17, Tallinn 58: Tallinn leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Essaouira 42, Tallinn 60: Tallinn leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Essaouira 58, Tallinn 72: Tallinn leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Essaouira 44, Tallinn 40: Essaouira leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Essaouira 74, Tallinn 47: Essaouira leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Essaouira 28, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Essaouira 66, Tallinn 50: Essaouira leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Essaouira and Tallinn.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Essaouira
45match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Tallinn
Best match
52match

Wins on day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Essaouira in July

22 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Tallinn in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Essaouira has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Essaouira: 1991-2020 normals, Essaouira (1.4 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureEssaouiraTallinn
Official languageArabic, Standard Moroccan TamazightEstonian
CurrencyMoroccan Dirham (MAD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15112
Elevation11 m28 m
Main airportEssaouira-Mogador Airport (ESU)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureEssaouiraTallinn
City population82,962457,572
People per km²16,5922,871
Museums within 10 km216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.