Tukuk-OS🌆 Tallinn
Estonia · Europe · 59.44°N, 24.75°E
Quick facts
| Country | Estonia |
|---|---|
| Continent / region | Europe |
| Coordinates (approx.) | 59.44°N, 24.75°E · view on map |
Tallinn is in Estonia, a country in Europe. For the living forecast here, open World Weather; Tallinn’s population and history are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).
Where Tallinn sits on the Earth
At 59.44° north of the equator, Tallinn is about 6,609 km from the equator itself and 3,398 km from its nearest pole — and that puts it in the boreal zone, where winter days are brief and summer light lingers late, though the true midnight sun starts a little further north. Latitude is only the sky’s address, of course: altitude, oceans and winds write the actual weather, which is why two cities on the same parallel can need overcoats in one place and sun hats in the other. The numbers on this page come straight from the town’s own coordinates.
Two consequences of that latitude anyone can test. On the equinox the midday sun stands 30.6° above the horizon here (straight up at the equator, lower the further you go). And because the Earth is a sphere turning once a day, a point at this latitude is carried around its axis at roughly 851 km/h — fastest at the equator, nothing at the poles. As for daylight: Tallinn sees its longest day lasts about 18.3 hours of daylight and its shortest about 5.7.
Nearest cities on our list: Helsinki (81.9 km to the north), Tampere (235.4 km to the north-northwest), Riga (279.4 km to the south), Saint Petersburg (318.3 km to the east-northeast). Every profile here carries the same arithmetic, so the distances between any two of them can be checked by opening both pages.
The other side of the world: a straight line through the centre of the Earth from Tallinn emerges at 59.44°S, 155.25°W — its antipode. The closest city on our list to that point is Dunedin, about 2,713 km away; whether the antipode itself is ocean or land is a good quiz question before you look it up.