VacationSelector

San Jose or Tallinn?

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

Your match

San Jose
39
match

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

Tallinn
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on sights concentration and beaches & swimming 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 JoseTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 46 points.46
San JoseTallinn
Score854
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km118
Coast distance14 km0 km
Water distance14 km0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 21 points.21
San JoseTallinn
Score4162
Restaurants within 2 km of centre313481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1639
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 36 points.36
San JoseTallinn
Score2662
Museums within 10 km2071
Museums within 2 km of centre957
Share of museums within 2 km %4580
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Tallinn leads by 15 points.15
San JoseTallinn
Score3146
Drinking venues within 4 km231462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre88370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3880
Nightclubs within 4 km1643
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 39 points.39
San JoseTallinn
Score7031
Protected land share 50 km %262
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %9153
Park area within 2 km101 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 18 points.18
San JoseTallinn
Score3351
Tourist attractions within 2 km220
Park area within 2 km101 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 48 points.48
San JoseTallinn
Score1462
Notable places within 2 km9135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 27 points.27
San JoseTallinn
Score4370
Price level global10062.4
Daily budget—€143
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 37 points.37
San JoseTallinn
Score8548
Monthly daytime high15.4 °C to 26.8 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 78 mm34 mm to 83 mm
Dry months84
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 Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
San Jose
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 Jose
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 Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSan JoseTallinn
TokyoHND, NRT
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
SeoulICN, GMP
11 h 20 m
€662-735
SFO · 57 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
10 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 55 m
€339-541
1 stop
SFO · 57 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 57 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 JoseTallinn
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
Elevation25 m28 m
Main airportMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan JoseTallinn
City population1,013,240457,572
People per km²2,1672,871
Museums within 10 km1915
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre3063
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.