VacationSelector

Tallinn or York?

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

Your match

Tallinn
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

York
41
match

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

TallinnYork
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 54 points.54
TallinnYork
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km182
Coast distance0 km50 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 8 points.8
TallinnYork
Score6254
Restaurants within 2 km of centre481361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3931
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 16 points.16
TallinnYork
Score6246
Museums within 10 km7118
Museums within 2 km of centre5716
Share of museums within 2 km %8089
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Tallinn leads by 3 points.3
TallinnYork
Score4643
Drinking venues within 4 km462450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre370353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8078
Nightclubs within 4 km4314
Nature & day trips. York leads by 2 points.2
TallinnYork
Score3133
Protected land share 50 km %217
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %5395
Park area within 2 km89 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 8 points.8
TallinnYork
Score5143
Tourist attractions within 2 km2013
Park area within 2 km89 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 23 points.23
TallinnYork
Score6239
Notable places within 2 km13537
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 16 points.16
TallinnYork
Score7054
Price level global62.484.9
Daily budget€143
Year-round weather. York leads by 8 points.8
TallinnYork
Score4856
Monthly daytime high-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 83 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months41
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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F
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A
M
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J
A
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N
D
Daytime high, °C
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Tallinn
1
2
5
7
10
10
10
8
5
3
1
1
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTallinnYork
RovaniemiRVN
1 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ChaniaCHQ
3 h 55 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
RigaRIX
1 h 0 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MalagaAGP
4 h 30 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
HelsinkiHEL
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 0 m
€603-634
HEL · 99 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
Sharm el SheikhSSH
4 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
5 h 30 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureTallinnYork
Official languageEstonianEnglish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation28 m25 m
Main airportLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureTallinnYork
City population457,572208,400
People per km²2,871766
Museums within 10 km1524
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre6354
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.