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The pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach, St. Pete Beach
St. Pete BeachThe pink Don CeSar hotel seen from the beach
The Viru Gate, Tallinn
TallinnThe Viru Gate

Photos: St. Pete Beach by Jeffrey Eisen, Pexels License; Tallinn by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

St. Pete Beach or Tallinn?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose St. Pete Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Pete Beach’s own page.

Choose Tallinn for

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Tallinn’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. St. Pete Beach 87, Tallinn 28: St. Pete Beach leads by 59 points.
Food & drink. St. Pete Beach 40, Tallinn 52: Tallinn leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. St. Pete Beach 18, Tallinn 68: Tallinn leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. St. Pete Beach 28, Tallinn 44: Tallinn leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. St. Pete Beach 57, Tallinn 55: St. Pete Beach leads by 2 points.
Day trips. St. Pete Beach and Tallinn are level on 58.
Good for families. St. Pete Beach 72, Tallinn 60: St. Pete Beach leads by 12 points.
Getting around. St. Pete Beach 30, Tallinn 72: Tallinn leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. St. Pete Beach 20, Tallinn 40: Tallinn leads by 20 points.
Affordability. St. Pete Beach 32, Tallinn 47: Tallinn leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. St. Pete Beach 20, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. St. Pete Beach 42, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: St. Pete Beach and Tallinn.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

St. Pete Beach
42match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Tallinn
Best match
52match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

St. Pete Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
185 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Tallinn in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

St. Pete Beach has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

St. Pete Beach's sunshine is measured 34 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. St. Pete Beach: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (12.2 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSt. Pete BeachTallinn
Official language-Estonian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2 m28 m
Main airportSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)21 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSt. Pete BeachTallinn
City population8,879457,572
People per km²1732,871
Museums within 10 km216
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 monthsNone

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.