VacationSelector

Oslo 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

Oslo
56
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife 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.

OsloTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 6 points.6
OsloTallinn
Score6054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km16318
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 5 points.5
OsloTallinn
Score6762
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3439
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 14 points.14
OsloTallinn
Score4862
Museums within 10 km7071
Museums within 2 km of centre3757
Share of museums within 2 km %5380
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Oslo leads by 7 points.7
OsloTallinn
Score5346
Drinking venues within 4 km695462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre562370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8180
Nightclubs within 4 km4143
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 30 points.30
OsloTallinn
Score6131
Protected land share 50 km %222
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %9453
Park area within 2 km88 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 3 points.3
OsloTallinn
Score4851
Tourist attractions within 2 km1320
Park area within 2 km88 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 7 points.7
OsloTallinn
Score6962
Notable places within 2 km207135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 16 points.16
OsloTallinn
Score5470
Price level global85.162.4
Daily budget€203€143
Year-round weather. Oslo and Tallinn are level on 48.
OsloTallinn
Score4848
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 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
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
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. Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsloTallinn
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
HelsinkiHEL
1 h 35 m
€128-170
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
RigaRIX
1 h 40 m
€43-87
OSL · 37 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 50 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
10 h 0 m
€603-634
HEL · 99 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
DohaDOH
6 h 30 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
5 h 50 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

MeasureOsloTallinn
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiEstonian
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112
Elevation23 m28 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloTallinn
City population717,710457,572
People per km²–2,871
Museums within 10 km6015
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre7563
Swim season, months above 21 °CNoneNone

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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). 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. 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.