VacationSelector

Rome or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Tallinn
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

RomeTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 21 points.21
RomeTallinn
Score3354
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km318
Coast distance24 km0 km
Water distance24 km0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 2 points.2
RomeTallinn
Score6062
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,241481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1039
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 22 points.22
RomeTallinn
Score8462
Museums within 10 km16171
Museums within 2 km of centre7957
Share of museums within 2 km %4980
Unesco sites within 50 km71
Nightlife. Rome leads by 28 points.28
RomeTallinn
Score7446
Drinking venues within 4 km2,022462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre912370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4580
Nightclubs within 4 km8543
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 39 points.39
RomeTallinn
Score7031
Protected land share 50 km %192
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7853
Park area within 2 km172 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 35 points.35
RomeTallinn
Score8651
Tourist attractions within 2 km12620
Park area within 2 km172 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 37 points.37
RomeTallinn
Score9962
Notable places within 2 km1,125135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 2 points.2
RomeTallinn
Score6870
Price level global64.962.4
Daily budget€155€143
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 23 points.23
RomeTallinn
Score7148
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 31.4 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 114 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months34
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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4
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. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromRomeTallinn
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 50 m
€96-147
FCO · 23 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
TokyoHND, NRT
12 h 20 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 20 m
€60-112
FCO · 23 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 15 m
€84-118
FCO · 23 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
3 h 40 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
4 h 50 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 2026-08 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

MeasureRomeTallinn
Official languageItalianEstonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation21 m28 m
Main airportRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureRomeTallinn
City population2,748,109457,572
People per km²2,1352,871
Museums within 10 km17715
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km71
Distinct cuisines in the centre6563
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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). 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. 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.