VacationSelector

Kyoto or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Kyoto
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Tallinn
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.

KyotoTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 37 points.37
KyotoTallinn
Score1754
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km018
Coast distance47 km0 km
Water distance47 km0 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 22 points.22
KyotoTallinn
Score8462
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,023481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2239
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 10 points.10
KyotoTallinn
Score7262
Museums within 10 km13271
Museums within 2 km of centre5157
Share of museums within 2 km %3980
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 34 points.34
KyotoTallinn
Score8046
Drinking venues within 4 km3,215462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7380
Nightclubs within 4 km2643
Nature & day trips. Tallinn leads by 9 points.9
KyotoTallinn
Score2231
Protected land share 50 km %22
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km45 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 15 points.15
KyotoTallinn
Score6651
Tourist attractions within 2 km6220
Park area within 2 km45 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 10 points.10
KyotoTallinn
Score5262
Notable places within 2 km79135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Kyoto and Tallinn are level on 70.
KyotoTallinn
Score7070
Price level global62.462.4
Daily budget—€143
Year-round weather. Kyoto leads by 14 points.14
KyotoTallinn
Score6248
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 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
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5
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. Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoTallinn
TokyoHND, NRT
1 h 10 m
€118-135
ITM · 39 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
SeoulICN, GMP
1 h 40 m
€107-142
KIX · 81 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
5 h 35 m
€288-317
KIX · 81 km
10 h 0 m
€603-634
HEL · 99 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
HelsinkiHEL
9 h 45 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 81 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
Hong KongHKG
3 h 35 m
€254-314
KIX · 81 km
9 h 50 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 2026-08 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

MeasureKyotoTallinn
Official languageJapaneseEstonian
CurrencyYen (JPY)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation51 m28 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoTallinn
City population1,463,723457,572
People per km²1,7682,871
Museums within 10 km7615
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8963
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.