VacationSelector

Reykjavik or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Reykjavik
46
match

Wins on nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Tallinn
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife 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.

ReykjavikTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Reykjavik leads by 6 points.6
ReykjavikTallinn
Score6054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km3318
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 13 points.13
ReykjavikTallinn
Score4962
Restaurants within 2 km of centre261481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2939
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 12 points.12
ReykjavikTallinn
Score5062
Museums within 10 km3471
Museums within 2 km of centre2357
Share of museums within 2 km %6880
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Tallinn leads by 19 points.19
ReykjavikTallinn
Score2746
Drinking venues within 4 km192462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre166370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8680
Nightclubs within 4 km1043
Nature & day trips. Reykjavik leads by 28 points.28
ReykjavikTallinn
Score5931
Protected land share 50 km %162
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5653
Park area within 2 km28 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 9 points.9
ReykjavikTallinn
Score4251
Tourist attractions within 2 km2120
Park area within 2 km28 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 14 points.14
ReykjavikTallinn
Score4862
Notable places within 2 km61135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 29 points.29
ReykjavikTallinn
Score4170
Price level global102.862.4
Daily budget€243€143
Year-round weather. Tallinn leads by 11 points.11
ReykjavikTallinn
Score3748
Monthly daytime high3.2 °C to 14.9 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 97 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
Reykjavik
3
3
4
7
10
13
15
14
11
8
5
3
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Reykjavik
5
5
5
6
7
10
11
11
10
8
7
6
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Reykjavik
86
87
84
56
49
41
50
66
87
80
86
97
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Reykjavik
6
9
12
15
18
21
20
16
13
10
7
4
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Reykjavik
1
2
4
5
7
6
6
5
4
3
1
0
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. Reykjavik: 1991-2020 normals, Reykjavik (2.3 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromReykjavikTallinn
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€245-283
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 30 m
€313-393
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 10 m
€216-282
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€389-592
KEF · 37 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 10 m
€174-231
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 35 m
€268-383
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 5 m
€293-407
2 stops
KEF · 37 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 20 m
€247-346
1 stop
KEF · 37 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
OsloOSL, TRF
2 h 45 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
RigaRIX
3 h 45 m
no fares
KEF · 37 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
TLL · 6 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 2026-09 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

MeasureReykjavikTallinn
Official languageIcelandicEstonian
CurrencyIceland Krona (ISK)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTCUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation8 m28 m
Main airportKeflavik International Airport (KEF)37 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureReykjavikTallinn
City population138,772457,572
People per km²5692,871
Museums within 10 km2315
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4263
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.