VacationSelector

Mexico City or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife 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.

Mexico CityTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 54 points.54
Mexico CityTallinn
Score054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km418
Coast distance247 km0 km
Water distance—0 km
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 4 points.4
Mexico CityTallinn
Score6662
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1539
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 17 points.17
Mexico CityTallinn
Score7962
Museums within 10 km13871
Museums within 2 km of centre6557
Share of museums within 2 km %4780
Unesco sites within 50 km61
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 32 points.32
Mexico CityTallinn
Score7846
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4380
Nightclubs within 4 km19843
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 32 points.32
Mexico CityTallinn
Score6331
Protected land share 50 km %302
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km32 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 1 points.1
Mexico CityTallinn
Score5051
Tourist attractions within 2 km2320
Park area within 2 km32 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 8 points.8
Mexico CityTallinn
Score5462
Notable places within 2 km88135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Mexico City leads by 6 points.6
Mexico CityTallinn
Score7670
Price level global54.262.4
Daily budget—€143
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 42 points.42
Mexico CityTallinn
Score9048
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months64
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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
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. Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityTallinn
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
4 h 40 m
€335-379
MEX · 7 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
TokyoHND, NRT
14 h 0 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
3 h 35 m
€248-282
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 50 m
€259-271
MEX · 7 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 25 m
€203-306
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 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

MeasureMexico CityTallinn
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaEstonian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m28 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityTallinn
City population9,209,944457,572
People per km²6,2022,871
Museums within 10 km10815
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre5063
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). 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. 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.