VacationSelector

Lisbon or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

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

Tallinn
54
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

LisbonTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 3 points.3
LisbonTallinn
Score5754
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2418
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 18 points.18
LisbonTallinn
Score8062
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,496481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3139
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 8 points.8
LisbonTallinn
Score7062
Museums within 10 km12471
Museums within 2 km of centre5457
Share of museums within 2 km %4480
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Lisbon leads by 19 points.19
LisbonTallinn
Score6546
Drinking venues within 4 km1,225462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre956370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7880
Nightclubs within 4 km6543
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 25 points.25
LisbonTallinn
Score5631
Protected land share 50 km %112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5453
Park area within 2 km77 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Lisbon leads by 18 points.18
LisbonTallinn
Score6951
Tourist attractions within 2 km8220
Park area within 2 km77 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 4 points.4
LisbonTallinn
Score6662
Notable places within 2 km169135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Lisbon leads by 4 points.4
LisbonTallinn
Score7470
Price level global55.962.4
Daily budget€109€143
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 30 points.30
LisbonTallinn
Score7848
Monthly daytime high14.9 °C to 28.4 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 121 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months44
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
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. Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLisbonTallinn
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€164-250
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
MadridMAD
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 35 m
€124-144
LIS · 7 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
4 h 10 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
SeoulICN, GMP
12 h 55 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
8 h 55 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

MeasureLisbonTallinn
Official languagePortugueseEstonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation100 m28 m
Main airportLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLisbonTallinn
City population545,796457,572
People per km²5,4532,871
Museums within 10 km7815
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre10663
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.