How many days do you need in Tallinn?
Three days. That is the length of the itinerary we built for Tallinn.
Here is what each day holds. Every stop below carries its time, and every gap says how to get to the next stop, with the walk or drive time wherever both stops are mapped.
Tallinn · 3 days Estonia
Best time: May to September for long days and open terraces.
The old townDay 1
🌳9:00 AMToompea Hill
The upper town on its limestone outcrop, with the Kohtuotsa and Patkuli terraces looking over the red roofs below.
🚶 ~2 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 438 ft
⛪11:30 AMAlexander Nevsky Cathedral
The onion-domed Russian Orthodox cathedral of 1900, deliberately placed facing the Estonian parliament.
🚶 ~6 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.2 mi
🌆2:00 PMTown Hall Square
The lower town’s medieval square, with the only surviving Gothic town hall in northern Europe on its south side.
Walls and KadriorgDay 2
🏰9:30 AMThe town wall towers
Nearly two kilometres of wall and around twenty towers still stand; several are open to climb.
🚶 ~46 min · 🚗 ~6 min · 1.7 mi
🌳1:00 PMKadriorg Palace and park
A baroque palace built by Peter the Great, now a foreign-art museum, in a formal park east of the centre.
🚶 ~5 min · 🚗 ~1 min · 0.2 mi
🖼️4:00 PMKUMU Art Museum
Estonia’s main art museum, cut into the limestone bank at the top of Kadriorg park.
The sea and the new cityDay 3
📍10:00 AMSeaplane Harbour
A 1917 seaplane hangar of thin-shell concrete, now a maritime museum with a submarine you can walk through.
🚶 ~22 min · 🚗 ~3 min · 0.8 mi
📍1:30 PMTelliskivi Creative City
A former industrial rail complex turned into studios, galleries and a weekend market.
🚗 ~14 min · 3.9 mi
📍5:00 PMPirita and the coastal path
The shore road northeast to the yachting harbour built for the 1980 Olympic regatta, with the convent ruins above it.
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