VacationSelector

Tallinn or Zadar?

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 places to eat and sights concentration with your weighting.

Zadar
47
match

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

TallinnZadar
Beaches & swimming. Zadar leads by 19 points.19
TallinnZadar
Score5473
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km1849
Coast distance0 km0 km
Water distance0 km0 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 37 points.37
TallinnZadar
Score6225
Restaurants within 2 km of centre481143
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3911
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 29 points.29
TallinnZadar
Score6233
Museums within 10 km718
Museums within 2 km of centre578
Share of museums within 2 km %80100
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Tallinn leads by 21 points.21
TallinnZadar
Score4625
Drinking venues within 4 km462194
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre370139
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8072
Nightclubs within 4 km434
Nature & day trips. Zadar leads by 24 points.24
TallinnZadar
Score3155
Protected land share 50 km %212
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %5347
Park area within 2 km89 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 20 points.20
TallinnZadar
Score5131
Tourist attractions within 2 km209
Park area within 2 km89 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 31 points.31
TallinnZadar
Score6231
Notable places within 2 km13523
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zadar leads by 10 points.10
TallinnZadar
Score7080
Price level global62.448.5
Daily budget€143€138
Year-round weather. Zadar leads by 21 points.21
TallinnZadar
Score4869
Monthly daytime high-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C10.4 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 83 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months42
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
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Zadar
10
11
15
19
23
28
31
31
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Zadar
14
13
13
14
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Rainfall, mm
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Zadar
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Zadar
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Tallinn
1
2
5
7
10
10
10
8
5
3
1
1
Zadar
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTallinnZadar
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
2 h 45 m
€123-165
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 107 km
HelsinkiHEL
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
3 h 0 m
€232-306
2 stops
SPU · 107 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
1 h 40 m
€161-226
1 stop
ZAD · 10 km
RomeFCO, CIA
3 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 107 km
MunichMUC
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 107 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
ZAD · 10 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 107 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

MeasureTallinnZadar
Official languageEstonianCroatian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation28 m5 m
Main airportLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureTallinnZadar
City population457,57270,779
People per km²2,871
Museums within 10 km151
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre6317
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.