VacationSelector

San Diego or Tallinn?

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

Your match

San Diego
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Tallinn
54
match

Wins on value for money 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.

San DiegoTallinn
Beaches & swimming. San Diego leads by 9 points.9
San DiegoTallinn
Score6354
Swim season months10
Beaches 10 km4218
Coast distance1 km0 km
Water distance1 km0 km
Places to eat. San Diego leads by 1 points.1
San DiegoTallinn
Score6362
Restaurants within 2 km of centre823481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2739
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 18 points.18
San DiegoTallinn
Score4462
Museums within 10 km5971
Museums within 2 km of centre3057
Share of museums within 2 km %5180
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. San Diego leads by 4 points.4
San DiegoTallinn
Score5046
Drinking venues within 4 km615462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre408370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6680
Nightclubs within 4 km3143
Nature & day trips. San Diego leads by 24 points.24
San DiegoTallinn
Score5531
Protected land share 50 km %62
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5253
Park area within 2 km308 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. San Diego leads by 24 points.24
San DiegoTallinn
Score7551
Tourist attractions within 2 km4020
Park area within 2 km308 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 22 points.22
San DiegoTallinn
Score4062
Notable places within 2 km40135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 27 points.27
San DiegoTallinn
Score4370
Price level global10062.4
Daily budget—€143
Year-round weather. San Diego leads by 40 points.40
San DiegoTallinn
Score8848
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 25 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 56 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months94
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
San Diego
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
23
21
19
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
San Diego
15
15
16
16
17
19
20
21
21
19
18
16
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
San Diego
50
56
37
17
7
1
2
0
3
13
20
42
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
San Diego
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
11
10
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
San Diego
No sunshine record
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. San Diego: 1991-2020 normals, San Diego International Airport (2.8 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan DiegoTallinn
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 15 m
€299-455
1 stop
SAN · 3 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
TokyoHND, NRT
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
3 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 55 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
SeattleSEA, BFI
2 h 40 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 15 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
MunichMUC
12 h 5 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
50 m
no fares
SAN · 3 km
11 h 15 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

MeasureSan DiegoTallinn
Official language–Estonian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation129 m28 m
Main airportSan Diego International Airport (SAN)3 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan DiegoTallinn
City population1,386,932457,572
People per km²1,4382,871
Museums within 10 km2615
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre4463
Swim season, months above 21 °C1 monthNone

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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). 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. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.