VacationSelector

Philadelphia or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Tallinn
✓ Best match
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.

PhiladelphiaTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 54 points.54
PhiladelphiaTallinn
Score054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km118
Coast distance13 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 15 points.15
PhiladelphiaTallinn
Score7762
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,714481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3539
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 2 points.2
PhiladelphiaTallinn
Score6062
Museums within 10 km8971
Museums within 2 km of centre4857
Share of museums within 2 km %5480
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 13 points.13
PhiladelphiaTallinn
Score5946
Drinking venues within 4 km930462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6280
Nightclubs within 4 km4143
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 18 points.18
PhiladelphiaTallinn
Score4931
Protected land share 50 km %142
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %8953
Park area within 2 km75 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 2 points.2
PhiladelphiaTallinn
Score5351
Tourist attractions within 2 km1620
Park area within 2 km75 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 8 points.8
PhiladelphiaTallinn
Score5462
Notable places within 2 km88135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 27 points.27
PhiladelphiaTallinn
Score4370
Price level global10062.4
Daily budget€143
Year-round weather. Philadelphia leads by 12 points.12
PhiladelphiaTallinn
Score6048
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 112 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
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. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPhiladelphiaTallinn
TokyoHND, NRT
13 h 30 m
€989-1136
JFK · 140 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
8 h 5 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
HelsinkiHEL
8 h 25 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
8 h 45 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 55 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
DohaDOH
13 h 30 m
no fares
PHL · 11 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

MeasurePhiladelphiaTallinn
Official languageEstonian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation12 m28 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaTallinn
City population1,603,797457,572
People per km²4,3392,871
Museums within 10 km5415
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre7563
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.