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Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West
The Viru Gate, Tallinn
TallinnThe Viru Gate

Photos: Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License; Tallinn by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Key West 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 Key West for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Tallinn for

  • prices
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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. Key West 60, Tallinn 28: Key West leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Key West 45, Tallinn 52: Tallinn leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Key West 40, Tallinn 68: Tallinn leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Key West 62, Tallinn 44: Key West leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Key West 62, Tallinn 55: Key West leads by 7 points.
Day trips. Key West 28, Tallinn 58: Tallinn leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Key West 40, Tallinn 60: Tallinn leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Key West 62, Tallinn 72: Tallinn leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Key West 30, Tallinn 40: Tallinn leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Key West 15, Tallinn 47: Tallinn leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Key West 38, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Key West 40, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Key West and Tallinn.

Your match

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

Key West
44match

Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

Tallinn
Best match
52match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °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

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West 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. Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKey WestTallinn
Official language-Estonian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m28 m
Main airportKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKey WestTallinn
City population26,444457,572
People per km²1,4072,871
Museums within 10 km716
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

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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). 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.