VacationSelector

Heidelberg or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Heidelberg
45
match

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

Tallinn
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

HeidelbergTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 54 points.54
HeidelbergTallinn
Score054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km618
Coast distance406 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 15 points.15
HeidelbergTallinn
Score4762
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2639
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 3 points.3
HeidelbergTallinn
Score5962
Museums within 10 km5471
Museums within 2 km of centre2357
Share of museums within 2 km %4380
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Tallinn leads by 19 points.19
HeidelbergTallinn
Score2746
Drinking venues within 4 km201462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8480
Nightclubs within 4 km843
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 43 points.43
HeidelbergTallinn
Score7431
Protected land share 50 km %522
Landscape blanket share 50 km %220
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km20 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 8 points.8
HeidelbergTallinn
Score4351
Tourist attractions within 2 km2920
Park area within 2 km20 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 26 points.26
HeidelbergTallinn
Score3662
Notable places within 2 km31135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 10 points.10
HeidelbergTallinn
Score6070
Price level global75.962.4
Daily budget€163€143
Year-round weather. Heidelberg leads by 13 points.13
HeidelbergTallinn
Score6148
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 25.8 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall45 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
Heidelberg
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
Heidelberg
No coastline within reach
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
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. Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHeidelbergTallinn
RovaniemiRVN
3 h 5 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 5 m
€140-202
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 30 m
€239-263
FRA · 69 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€537-713
FRA · 69 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 69 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 15 m
€570-612
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
10 h 0 m
€603-634
HEL · 99 km
BerlinBER
1 h 10 m
€157-188
FRA · 69 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€296-339
1 stop
FRA · 69 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

MeasureHeidelbergTallinn
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
Elevation114 m28 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureHeidelbergTallinn
City population162,960457,572
People per km²1,4962,871
Museums within 10 km1715
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre4563
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.