VacationSelector

Nice 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, 2 points apart

Nice
56
match

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

Tallinn
54
match

Wins on good for families 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.

NiceTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Nice leads by 19 points.19
NiceTallinn
Score7354
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km7018
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Nice leads by 7 points.7
NiceTallinn
Score6962
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,231481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2839
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 16 points.16
NiceTallinn
Score4662
Museums within 10 km2771
Museums within 2 km of centre1457
Share of museums within 2 km %5280
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Tallinn leads by 2 points.2
NiceTallinn
Score4446
Drinking venues within 4 km428462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre388370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9180
Nightclubs within 4 km2643
Nature & day trips. Nice leads by 26 points.26
NiceTallinn
Score5731
Protected land share 50 km %242
Landscape blanket share 50 km %200
Land share of disc %6253
Park area within 2 km56 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 21 points.21
NiceTallinn
Score3051
Tourist attractions within 2 km420
Park area within 2 km56 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 15 points.15
NiceTallinn
Score4762
Notable places within 2 km60135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 8 points.8
NiceTallinn
Score6270
Price level global73.762.4
Daily budget€160€143
Year-round weather. Nice leads by 26 points.26
NiceTallinn
Score7448
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months34
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
Nice
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Nice
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Nice
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Nice
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Nice
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
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. Nice: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (8 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNiceTallinn
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 6 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 6 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
RovaniemiRVN
3 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 55 m
€116-160
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 6 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
RigaRIX
2 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 6 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 15 m
€234-288
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 6 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 20 m
€375-433
NCE · 6 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

MeasureNiceTallinn
Official languageFrenchEstonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m28 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)6 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNiceTallinn
City population357,737457,572
People per km²4,9752,871
Museums within 10 km1615
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre6563
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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. 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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.