VacationSelector

Rotterdam or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Rotterdam
54
match

Wins on nature & day trips and good for families 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.

RotterdamTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 17 points.17
RotterdamTallinn
Score3754
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km2218
Coast distance24 km0 km
Water distance24 km0 km
Places to eat. Rotterdam leads by 10 points.10
RotterdamTallinn
Score7262
Restaurants within 2 km of centre862481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4639
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 2 points.2
RotterdamTallinn
Score6062
Museums within 10 km4171
Museums within 2 km of centre2057
Share of museums within 2 km %4980
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Rotterdam leads by 3 points.3
RotterdamTallinn
Score4946
Drinking venues within 4 km542462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre378370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7080
Nightclubs within 4 km4043
Nature & day trips. Rotterdam leads by 11 points.11
RotterdamTallinn
Score4231
Protected land share 50 km %102
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %7953
Park area within 2 km61 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Rotterdam leads by 11 points.11
RotterdamTallinn
Score6251
Tourist attractions within 2 km2720
Park area within 2 km61 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km81
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 11 points.11
RotterdamTallinn
Score5162
Notable places within 2 km74135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 12 points.12
RotterdamTallinn
Score5870
Price level global79.262.4
Daily budget€181€143
Year-round weather. Rotterdam leads by 8 points.8
RotterdamTallinn
Score5648
Monthly daytime high6.2 °C to 22.1 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 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
Rotterdam
6
7
10
14
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Rotterdam
6
5
6
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Rotterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Rotterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Rotterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. Rotterdam: 1993-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Rotterdam Airport Zestienhoven (3.9 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRotterdamTallinn
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
2 h 0 m
€156-208
AMS · 47 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
DublinDUB
1 h 35 m
€69-96
AMS · 47 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 47 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 47 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
RovaniemiRVN
3 h 0 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 15 m
€145-187
AMS · 47 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 47 km
6 h 0 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 40 m
no fares
AMS · 47 km
9 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

MeasureRotterdamTallinn
Official languageDutchEstonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation10 m28 m
Main airportRotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM)5 km from centre45 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureRotterdamTallinn
City population664,311457,572
People per km²2,0802,871
Museums within 10 km4015
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre7763
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). 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.