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The white beach below the high-rise hotels, Orange Beach
Orange BeachThe white beach below the high-rise hotels
The Viru Gate, Tallinn
TallinnThe Viru Gate

Photos: Orange Beach by WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tallinn by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Orange Beach or Tallinn?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Orange Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Orange Beach’s own page.

Choose Tallinn for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Tallinn’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Orange Beach 86, Tallinn 28: Orange Beach leads by 58 points.
Food & drink. Orange Beach 40, Tallinn 52: Tallinn leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Orange Beach 7, Tallinn 68: Tallinn leads by 61 points.
Nightlife. Orange Beach 30, Tallinn 44: Tallinn leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Orange Beach 60, Tallinn 55: Orange Beach leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Orange Beach 50, Tallinn 58: Tallinn leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Orange Beach 75, Tallinn 60: Orange Beach leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Orange Beach 15, Tallinn 72: Tallinn leads by 57 points.
Shopping & style. Orange Beach 25, Tallinn 40: Tallinn leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Orange Beach 38, Tallinn 47: Tallinn leads by 9 points.
Live music & performing arts. Orange Beach 32, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Orange Beach 32, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Orange Beach and Tallinn.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Orange Beach
41match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Tallinn
Best match
52match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Orange Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Tallinn in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Orange BeachTallinn

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Orange Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Gulf Shores / Bay Village Mobile Home Park (10.5 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOrange BeachTallinn
Official language-Estonian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6, UTC-5 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m28 m
Main airportPensacola International Airport (PNS)41 km from centre27 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureOrange BeachTallinn
City population8,095457,572
People per km²1962,871
Museums within 10 km016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.