VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Los Angeles
53
match

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

Tallinn
54
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

Los AngelesTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 25 points.25
Los AngelesTallinn
Score2954
Beaches 25 km11—
Beaches 10 km018
Swim season months00
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C—
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing—
Declared2026-08-25—
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json—
Coast distance—0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 4 points.4
Los AngelesTallinn
Score6662
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,337481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2239
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 13 points.13
Los AngelesTallinn
Score4962
Museums within 10 km6971
Museums within 2 km of centre2357
Share of museums within 2 km %3380
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Los Angeles leads by 8 points.8
Los AngelesTallinn
Score5446
Drinking venues within 4 km660462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6580
Nightclubs within 4 km6443
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 31 points.31
Los AngelesTallinn
Score6231
Protected land share 50 km %262
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8053
Park area within 2 km20 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 18 points.18
Los AngelesTallinn
Score3351
Tourist attractions within 2 km1120
Park area within 2 km20 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 8 points.8
Los AngelesTallinn
Score5462
Notable places within 2 km88135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 27 points.27
Los AngelesTallinn
Score4370
Price level global10062.4
Daily budget—€143
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 39 points.39
Los AngelesTallinn
Score8748
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months84
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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
No sunshine record
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. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesTallinn
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 0 m
€785-892
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
HelsinkiHEL
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
16 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
10 h 0 m
€603-634
HEL · 99 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
2 h 30 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 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

MeasureLos AngelesTallinn
Official language–Estonian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation106 m28 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesTallinn
City population3,898,747457,572
People per km²2,9942,871
Museums within 10 km3815
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4663
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). 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.