VacationSelector

New York or Tallinn?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Tallinn
54
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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.

New YorkTallinn
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 10 points.10
New YorkTallinn
Score6454
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km1718
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 33 points.33
New YorkTallinn
Score9562
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,032481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3839
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 2 points.2
New YorkTallinn
Score6062
Museums within 10 km11971
Museums within 2 km of centre3157
Share of museums within 2 km %2680
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. New York leads by 43 points.43
New YorkTallinn
Score8946
Drinking venues within 4 km4,159462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4880
Nightclubs within 4 km19243
Nature & day trips. New York leads by 8 points.8
New YorkTallinn
Score3931
Protected land share 50 km %42
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %6953
Park area within 2 km134 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 21 points.21
New YorkTallinn
Score7251
Tourist attractions within 2 km3720
Park area within 2 km134 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km71
Sights concentration. New York leads by 12 points.12
New YorkTallinn
Score7462
Notable places within 2 km268135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 27 points.27
New YorkTallinn
Score4370
Price level global10062.4
Daily budget—€143
Year-round weather. New York leads by 10 points.10
New YorkTallinn
Score5848
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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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F
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J
A
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
New York
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. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkTallinn
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 21 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
HelsinkiHEL
8 h 25 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
2 h 5 m
€236-237
LGA · 13 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
8 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
5 h 20 m
€314-354
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
11 h 15 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

MeasureNew YorkTallinn
Official language–Estonian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation25 m28 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkTallinn
City population8,804,190457,572
People per km²7,2562,871
Museums within 10 km15715
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre13263
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 monthsNone

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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.