VacationSelector

Lucerne or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Lucerne
33
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Tallinn
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

LucerneTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 54 points.54
LucerneTallinn
Score054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1618
Coast distance669 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 15 points.15
LucerneTallinn
Score4762
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2539
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 22 points.22
LucerneTallinn
Score4062
Museums within 10 km2371
Museums within 2 km of centre1357
Share of museums within 2 km %5780
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Tallinn leads by 18 points.18
LucerneTallinn
Score2846
Drinking venues within 4 km202462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre151370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7580
Nightclubs within 4 km1143
Nature & day trips. Tallinn leads by 6 points.6
LucerneTallinn
Score2531
Protected land share 50 km %72
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km29 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 13 points.13
LucerneTallinn
Score3851
Tourist attractions within 2 km1520
Park area within 2 km29 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 27 points.27
LucerneTallinn
Score3562
Notable places within 2 km29135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 35 points.35
LucerneTallinn
Score3570
Price level global110.562.4
Daily budget€248€143
Year-round weather. Lucerne leads by 5 points.5
LucerneTallinn
Score5348
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 24.3 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall60 mm to 128 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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Lucerne
No coastline within reach
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1
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. Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLucerneTallinn
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
RovaniemiRVN
3 h 25 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 25 m
€207-228
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
10 h 0 m
€603-634
HEL · 99 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 49 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
BerlinBER
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 49 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 2026-08 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

MeasureLucerneTallinn
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshEstonian
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation436 m28 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneTallinn
City population86,234457,572
People per km²2,9632,871
Museums within 10 km1415
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4663
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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. 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.

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.