VacationSelector

San Francisco or Tallinn?

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

Your match

San Francisco
✓ Best match
62
match

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

Tallinn
54
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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 FranciscoTallinn
Beaches & swimming. San Francisco leads by 6 points.6
San FranciscoTallinn
Score6054
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km4418
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. San Francisco leads by 21 points.21
San FranciscoTallinn
Score8362
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,359481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3939
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 18 points.18
San FranciscoTallinn
Score4462
Museums within 10 km5771
Museums within 2 km of centre2957
Share of museums within 2 km %5180
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. San Francisco leads by 22 points.22
San FranciscoTallinn
Score6846
Drinking venues within 4 km1,434462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre928370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6580
Nightclubs within 4 km9743
Nature & day trips. San Francisco leads by 29 points.29
San FranciscoTallinn
Score6031
Protected land share 50 km %172
Landscape blanket share 50 km %40
Land share of disc %5753
Park area within 2 km45 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. San Francisco leads by 6 points.6
San FranciscoTallinn
Score5751
Tourist attractions within 2 km4820
Park area within 2 km45 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. San Francisco leads by 1 points.1
San FranciscoTallinn
Score6362
Notable places within 2 km147135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 27 points.27
San FranciscoTallinn
Score4370
Price level global10062.4
Daily budget€143
Year-round weather. San Francisco leads by 30 points.30
San FranciscoTallinn
Score7848
Monthly daytime high14 °C to 23.2 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 105 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months74
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 Francisco
14
16
18
20
20
22
22
23
23
22
18
14
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
San Francisco
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 Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan FranciscoTallinn
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 20 m
€662-735
SFO · 18 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
MunichMUC
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
6 h 0 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 2026-09 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

MeasureSan FranciscoTallinn
Official languageEstonian
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
Elevation16 m28 m
Main airportSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan FranciscoTallinn
City population873,965457,572
People per km²1,4552,871
Museums within 10 km5015
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre10863
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). 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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.