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Kek Lok Si temple on the hillside, Penang
PenangKek Lok Si temple on the hillside
The Viru Gate, Tallinn
TallinnThe Viru Gate

Photos: Penang by Supanut Arunoprayote, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Tallinn by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Penang 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 Penang for

  • food and drink
  • prices
  • beaches

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

Choose Tallinn for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

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. Penang 44, Tallinn 28: Penang leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Penang 86, Tallinn 52: Penang leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Penang 70, Tallinn 68: Penang leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Penang 40, Tallinn 44: Tallinn leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Penang and Tallinn are level on 55.
Day trips. Penang 42, Tallinn 58: Tallinn leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Penang 52, Tallinn 60: Tallinn leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Penang 40, Tallinn 72: Tallinn leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Penang 42, Tallinn 40: Penang leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Penang 78, Tallinn 47: Penang leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Penang 30, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Penang 42, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Penang and Tallinn.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Penang
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Wins on food and drink and prices with your weighting.

Tallinn
52match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Penang in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
189 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
12 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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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Penang: 1991-2020 normals, Penang / Bayan Lepas (14.5 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePenangTallinn
Official languageMalayEstonian
CurrencyMalaysian Ringgit (MYR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation4 m28 m
Main airportPenang International Airport (PEN)14 km from centre32 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePenangTallinn
City population794,313457,572
People per km²-2,871
Museums within 10 km916
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Penang or Tallinn somewhere new.

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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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.