VacationSelector

Tallinn or Zagreb?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Zagreb
47
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

TallinnZagreb
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 54 points.54
TallinnZagreb
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km188
Coast distance0 km117 km
Water distance0 km—
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 10 points.10
TallinnZagreb
Score6252
Restaurants within 2 km of centre481374
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3927
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 17 points.17
TallinnZagreb
Score6245
Museums within 10 km7141
Museums within 2 km of centre5740
Share of museums within 2 km %8098
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Zagreb leads by 15 points.15
TallinnZagreb
Score4661
Drinking venues within 4 km4621,009
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre370571
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8057
Nightclubs within 4 km4363
Nature & day trips. Zagreb leads by 3 points.3
TallinnZagreb
Score3134
Protected land share 50 km %29
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %53100
Park area within 2 km89 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 23 points.23
TallinnZagreb
Score5128
Tourist attractions within 2 km207
Park area within 2 km89 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 2 points.2
TallinnZagreb
Score6260
Notable places within 2 km135122
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Zagreb leads by 10 points.10
TallinnZagreb
Score7080
Price level global62.448.5
Daily budget€143€138
Year-round weather. Zagreb leads by 14 points.14
TallinnZagreb
Score4862
Monthly daytime high-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C5.4 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 83 mm47 mm to 104 mm
Dry months40
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
Zagreb
5
8
13
18
23
27
29
28
22
17
11
6
Sea temperature, °C
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Zagreb
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Zagreb
47
48
49
63
76
90
87
85
104
91
88
63
Daylight, hours per day
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Zagreb
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Tallinn
1
2
5
7
10
10
10
8
5
3
1
1
Zagreb
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
9
6
4
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). Zagreb: 1991-2020 normals, Zagreb / Gric (0.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTallinnZagreb
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 5 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
2 h 0 m
€153-254
ZAG · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
MunichMUC
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DubrovnikDBV
3 h 5 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
DohaDOH
5 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 11 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 2026-08 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

MeasureTallinnZagreb
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 m127 m
Main airportLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsZagreb Franjo Tuđman International Airport (ZAG)11 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureTallinnZagreb
City population457,572767,131
People per km²2,871–
Museums within 10 km1527
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre6342
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. 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.