VacationSelector

Salzburg or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Salzburg
42
match

Wins on year-round weather with your weighting.

Tallinn
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

SalzburgTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 54 points.54
SalzburgTallinn
Score054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km918
Coast distance653 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 13 points.13
SalzburgTallinn
Score4962
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2339
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 2 points.2
SalzburgTallinn
Score6062
Museums within 10 km4271
Museums within 2 km of centre2757
Share of museums within 2 km %6480
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Tallinn leads by 10 points.10
SalzburgTallinn
Score3646
Drinking venues within 4 km294462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre241370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8280
Nightclubs within 4 km1643
Nature & day trips. Tallinn leads by 4 points.4
SalzburgTallinn
Score2731
Protected land share 50 km %62
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10053
Park area within 2 km39 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 3 points.3
SalzburgTallinn
Score4851
Tourist attractions within 2 km1720
Park area within 2 km39 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 16 points.16
SalzburgTallinn
Score4662
Notable places within 2 km54135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 11 points.11
SalzburgTallinn
Score5970
Price level global76.962.4
Daily budget€160€143
Year-round weather. Salzburg leads by 6 points.6
SalzburgTallinn
Score5448
Monthly daytime high3.4 °C to 24.9 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 168 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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A
S
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Salzburg
3
6
10
16
20
23
25
25
20
15
8
4
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Salzburg
No coastline within reach
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Salzburg
62
47
83
80
142
168
159
167
127
90
70
67
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Salzburg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Salzburg
3
3
5
6
7
7
7
7
5
4
3
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. Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSalzburgTallinn
RovaniemiRVN
3 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
HelsinkiHEL
2 h 30 m
€194-265
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
OuluOUL
3 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
11 h 0 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
10 h 0 m
€603-634
HEL · 99 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€183-250
MUC · 112 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€166-216
MUC · 112 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 15 m
no fares
MUC · 112 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€227-312
1 stop
MUC · 112 km
4 h 10 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 5 m
no fares
SZG · 3 km
5 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

MeasureSalzburgTallinn
Official languageGerman, Austrian Sign LanguageEstonian
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 number112112
Elevation424 m28 m
Main airportSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSalzburgTallinn
City population155,021457,572
People per km²2,3602,871
Museums within 10 km3815
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre5063
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.