VacationSelector

Sydney or Tallinn?

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

Your match

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on year-round weather and nightlife 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.

SydneyTallinn
Beaches & swimming. Sydney leads by 6 points.6
SydneyTallinn
Score6054
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km16018
Coast distance7 km0 km
Water distance7 km0 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 16 points.16
SydneyTallinn
Score7862
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,205481
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3139
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 11 points.11
SydneyTallinn
Score5162
Museums within 10 km4471
Museums within 2 km of centre2057
Share of museums within 2 km %4580
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 29 points.29
SydneyTallinn
Score7546
Drinking venues within 4 km2,050462
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,405370
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6980
Nightclubs within 4 km12043
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 27 points.27
SydneyTallinn
Score5831
Protected land share 50 km %102
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5253
Park area within 2 km115 hectares89 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 13 points.13
SydneyTallinn
Score6451
Tourist attractions within 2 km3720
Park area within 2 km115 hectares89 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 2 points.2
SydneyTallinn
Score6062
Notable places within 2 km123135
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 20 points.20
SydneyTallinn
Score5070
Price level global90.262.4
Daily budget—€143
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 33 points.33
SydneyTallinn
Score8148
Monthly daytime high17.7 °C to 27.7 °C-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 121 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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D
Daytime high, °C
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Daylight, hours per day
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8
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. Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSydneyTallinn
TokyoHND, NRT
9 h 50 m
€671
SYD · 9 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
9 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
10 h 0 m
€603-634
HEL · 99 km
SeoulICN, GMP
10 h 30 m
€548-574
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
14 h 50 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
SingaporeSIN, XSP
8 h 5 m
€498-549
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
19 h 30 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
Hong KongHKG
9 h 20 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
18 h 15 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
DohaDOH
15 h 15 m
€997-1100
SYD · 9 km
5 h 50 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

MeasureSydneyTallinn
Official languageEnglishEstonian
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation6 m28 m
Main airportSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSydneyTallinn
City population5,450,496457,572
People per km²4492,871
Museums within 10 km3815
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre7963
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 monthsNone

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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.