VacationSelector

Frankfurt or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Frankfurt
✓ 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.

FrankfurtTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 54 points.54
FrankfurtTallinn
Score054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km418
Coast distance327 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Frankfurt leads by 8 points.8
FrankfurtTallinn
Score7062
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,160481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3139
Museums & heritage. Frankfurt leads by 7 points.7
FrankfurtTallinn
Score6962
Museums within 10 km7971
Museums within 2 km of centre4357
Share of museums within 2 km %5480
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Frankfurt leads by 13 points.13
FrankfurtTallinn
Score5946
Drinking venues within 4 km931462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre691370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7480
Nightclubs within 4 km5643
Nature & day trips. Frankfurt leads by 33 points.33
FrankfurtTallinn
Score6431
Protected land share 50 km %282
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km124 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Frankfurt leads by 17 points.17
FrankfurtTallinn
Score6851
Tourist attractions within 2 km4520
Park area within 2 km124 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 1 points.1
FrankfurtTallinn
Score6162
Notable places within 2 km129135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 10 points.10
FrankfurtTallinn
Score6070
Price level global75.962.4
Daily budget€163€143
Year-round weather. Frankfurt leads by 14 points.14
FrankfurtTallinn
Score6248
Monthly daytime high5 °C to 26.2 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 68 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months14
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
Frankfurt
5
7
12
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
Frankfurt
No coastline within reach
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Frankfurt
52
44
41
38
62
60
68
60
50
54
53
63
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Frankfurt
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Frankfurt
2
3
5
7
7
8
8
7
6
4
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. Frankfurt: 1991-2020 normals, Frankfurt Westend (2 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFrankfurtTallinn
RovaniemiRVN
3 h 5 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 13 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 13 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 5 m
€140-202
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 30 m
€239-263
FRA · 13 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 13 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 13 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 15 m
€570-612
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
10 h 0 m
€603-634
HEL · 99 km
BerlinBER
1 h 10 m
€157-188
FRA · 13 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 13 km
6 h 0 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 2026-09 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

MeasureFrankfurtTallinn
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
Elevation101 m28 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)13 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureFrankfurtTallinn
City population775,790457,572
People per km²3,1242,871
Museums within 10 km5315
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre7163
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.