Estonia » Getting to Tallinn

 Approximate flight time from London to Tallinn is 3 hours.

By Air

Tallinn Airport is about 4 kilometres from Raekoja plats (Town Hall square); there's a local bus connection between the airport and the edge of the city centre. The terminal building is a small but modern, convenient and clean building - the modernisation was famously prompted by Estonian President Lennart Meri holding a press conference in the terminal's public toilets to publicise the poor state of the facilities.

Several airlines (e.g. easyJet, Estonian Air, Finnair, KLM, LOT, Lufthansa and SAS) operate between Tallinn and European cities such as Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Helsinki, London, Kiev, Milan, Moscow, Stockholm and Warsaw.

By Water

Several ferry operators, Viking Line, Silja Line, Linda Line Express, Tallink and others, connect Tallinn to Helsinki (Finland) Stockholm (Sweden) Åland (Finland) Saint Petersburg (Russia) Rostock (Germany).

The most popular passenger lines connect Tallinn to Helsinki (approximately 80 kilometres north of Tallinn) in less than one hour and twenty minutes by hydrofoil or 4 hours by conventional ferry. The fares are reasonably priced.

By Road

The Via Baltica motorway (part of European route E67 from Helsinki to Prague) connects Tallinn to the Lithuanian/Polish border.

Frequent and affordable long-distance bus routes connect Tallinn with other parts of Estonia.

By Train

Tallinn also has a commuter rail service running from Tallinn's main rail station (Balti jaam) in two main directions: east (Aegviidu) and to several western destinations (Pääsküla, Keila, Riisipere, Paldiski, Klooga). These are electrified lines and are used by the Elektriraudtee railroad company. The trains are a mixture of modernised older Soviet EMU's and newly built units. The first electrified train service in Tallinn was opened in 1924 from Tallinn to Pääsküla, a distance of 11.2 kilometres.