VacationSelector

Ljubljana or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Ljubljana
47
match

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

Tallinn
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families 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.

LjubljanaTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 54 points.54
LjubljanaTallinn
Score054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1018
Coast distance72 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 7 points.7
LjubljanaTallinn
Score5562
Restaurants within 2 km of centre292481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4039
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 7 points.7
LjubljanaTallinn
Score5562
Museums within 10 km2671
Museums within 2 km of centre2357
Share of museums within 2 km %8880
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Tallinn leads by 1 points.1
LjubljanaTallinn
Score4546
Drinking venues within 4 km458462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6280
Nightclubs within 4 km2443
Nature & day trips. Ljubljana leads by 9 points.9
LjubljanaTallinn
Score4031
Protected land share 50 km %132
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km75 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 13 points.13
LjubljanaTallinn
Score3851
Tourist attractions within 2 km1220
Park area within 2 km75 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 4 points.4
LjubljanaTallinn
Score5862
Notable places within 2 km109135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Ljubljana leads by 2 points.2
LjubljanaTallinn
Score7270
Price level global59.662.4
Daily budget€131€143
Year-round weather. Ljubljana leads by 8 points.8
LjubljanaTallinn
Score5648
Monthly daytime high4.1 °C to 27.9 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall67 mm to 159 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
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Ljubljana
No coastline within reach
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Ljubljana
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
8
6
4
2
2
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. Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLjubljanaTallinn
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
DubrovnikDBV
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 40 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 30 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
SplitSPU
55 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 45 m
€374-528
2 stops
LJU · 20 km
6 h 0 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
8 h 25 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

MeasureLjubljanaTallinn
Official languageSloveneEstonian
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
Elevation309 m28 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLjubljanaTallinn
City population284,293457,572
People per km²1,7362,871
Museums within 10 km1415
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre6363
Swim season, months above 21 °C–None

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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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.