VacationSelector

Paris or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

Tallinn
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

ParisTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 54 points.54
ParisTallinn
Score054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km218
Coast distance149 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 28 points.28
ParisTallinn
Score9062
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,732481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3339
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 14 points.14
ParisTallinn
Score7662
Museums within 10 km18571
Museums within 2 km of centre6557
Share of museums within 2 km %3580
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Paris leads by 42 points.42
ParisTallinn
Score8846
Drinking venues within 4 km3,796462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,694370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4580
Nightclubs within 4 km20143
Nature & day trips. Paris leads by 17 points.17
ParisTallinn
Score4831
Protected land share 50 km %282
Landscape blanket share 50 km %260
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km82 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 24 points.24
ParisTallinn
Score7551
Tourist attractions within 2 km8920
Park area within 2 km82 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 32 points.32
ParisTallinn
Score9462
Notable places within 2 km865135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 8 points.8
ParisTallinn
Score6270
Price level global73.762.4
Daily budget€160€143
Year-round weather. Paris leads by 18 points.18
ParisTallinn
Score6648
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months14
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Paris
No coastline within reach
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Paris
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. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromParisTallinn
RovaniemiRVN
3 h 25 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 5 m
€705-999
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€122-134
CDG · 22 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 30 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
RigaRIX
2 h 40 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 55 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 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

MeasureParisTallinn
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
Elevation27 m28 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisTallinn
City population2,103,778457,572
People per km²19,9602,871
Museums within 10 km25115
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre16963
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.