VacationSelector

Tallinn or Zurich?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Zurich
44
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

TallinnZurich
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 54 points.54
TallinnZurich
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km1823
Coast distance0 km632 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Zurich leads by 5 points.5
TallinnZurich
Score6267
Restaurants within 2 km of centre481974
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3930
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 6 points.6
TallinnZurich
Score6256
Museums within 10 km7176
Museums within 2 km of centre5737
Share of museums within 2 km %8049
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Zurich leads by 8 points.8
TallinnZurich
Score4654
Drinking venues within 4 km462676
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre370553
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8082
Nightclubs within 4 km4374
Nature & day trips. Zurich leads by 6 points.6
TallinnZurich
Score3137
Protected land share 50 km %216
Landscape blanket share 50 km %09
Land share of disc %53100
Park area within 2 km89 hectares48 hectares
Good for families. Tallinn leads by 15 points.15
TallinnZurich
Score5136
Tourist attractions within 2 km208
Park area within 2 km89 hectares48 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 3 points.3
TallinnZurich
Score6259
Notable places within 2 km135119
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tallinn leads by 35 points.35
TallinnZurich
Score7035
Price level global62.4110.5
Daily budget€143€248
Year-round weather. Zurich leads by 5 points.5
TallinnZurich
Score4853
Monthly daytime high-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C3.6 °C to 24.3 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 83 mm60 mm to 128 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
Zurich
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sea temperature, °C
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Zurich
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Zurich
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Daylight, hours per day
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Zurich
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Tallinn
1
2
5
7
10
10
10
8
5
3
1
1
Zurich
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre). Zurich: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (2.2 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromTallinnZurich
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 9 km
RovaniemiRVN
1 h 30 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€207-228
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
BangkokBKK, DMK
10 h 0 m
€603-634
HEL · 99 km
11 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
TokyoHND, NRT
9 h 50 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
ZRH · 9 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 5 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 9 km
BerlinBER
1 h 55 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
1 h 25 m
€140-176
ZRH · 9 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 0 m
no fares
HEL · 99 km
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 9 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

MeasureTallinnZurich
Official languageEstonianFrench, German, Italian, Romansh
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Swiss Franc (CHF)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation28 m408 m
Main airportLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsZürich Airport (ZRH)9 km from centre181 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureTallinnZurich
City population457,572452,421
People per km²2,8715,147
Museums within 10 km1563
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre6378
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.