Tallinn Card: Is It Worth It? Prices, Sights Covered, Transit and the Maths

💡 The Short Version: The Tallinn Card gives free entry to more than 50 museums and sights plus free travel on city buses, trolleybuses and trams. Adult prices are €45 for 24 hours, €65 for 48 hours and €78 for 72 hours. It pays off when you spend your days in the big museums: Seaplane Harbour (€22), Kumu (€16), Kadriorg (€15) and Kiek in de Kök (€16) add up to €69. It does not pay off if you mainly walk the Old Town and visit one or two sights. Or book a tour: a guided Old Town walking tourad covers the Old Town with a guide for less than the 24-hour card.

⚠️ Most covered museums are closed on Mondays. Kumu and the Kadriorg Art Museum shut on Mondays all year, and from October to April Seaplane Harbour, Fat Margaret, Kiek in de Kök and Niguliste do too, and the Great Guild Hall is open only Wednesday to Sunday. The card starts counting the first time you use it, so a card first used on a Monday bus ride loses hours you cannot spend in a museum.

Tallinn Card prices

• Children: an adult card lets you take up to two children under 7 into museums and sights for free. There is no student or senior price on the card.
• One entry per sight: each museum can be entered once per card.
• Activation: the card is activated at first use, and you can start it any time within a year of buying it. An unused card can be cancelled within a year of purchase.
• Where to buy: a digital card in the free Tallinn Card app or the online shop at visittallinn.ee, or a physical card at sales points in Tallinn, including the Tallinn Tourist Information Centre (Niguliste 2), and on ferries arriving in Tallinn.
• Groups: ten or more people can buy cards at 10% off from the Tourist Information Centre.

What the card covers, and what the same sights cost

Adult gate prices; the Tallinn Card covers all of these.

Seaplane Harbour and Fat Margaret share a €30 joint ticket, valid for a week, if you pay at the gate.

Tallinn Town Hall is also covered. It is open to walk-in visitors only from 1 June to 31 August (€7, or €12 with the tower); from September to May it opens Monday to Friday by appointment, and the card is not valid for those out-of-season visits.

Great Guild Hall, Pikk street. Photo: Borodun, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Or book a tour

The card is a ticket, not a guide. A walking tour covers the Old Town in two hours for less than a 24-hour adult card.

Guided Old Town historical walking tour

From €35 · 4.9 stars from 1,616 reviews · 2 hours · small group of up to 15

The Tallinn: Guided Old Town Historical Walking Tourad walks the Old Town with a local guide, past the Town Hall and Niguliste, with the view from the Kohtuotsa viewpoint.

The maths for three kinds of visit

Two days of museums: the card wins

Day one in the Old Town and day two across the city, Wednesday to Sunday:

A 48-hour card costs €65, so it saves €44 per person.

One day: it needs three big sights

Seaplane Harbour (€22), Kumu (€16) and Kadriorg (€15) come to €53 before any transport, against €45 for the 24-hour card. Two of the three do not reach €45, even with the €5.50 day ticket added. Seaplane Harbour is in Kalamaja and Kumu and Kadriorg are in Kadriorg, so a day of all three is possible but long.

Seaplane Harbour, Kalamaja. Photo: Hiiumaa mudeliklubi, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Old Town only: the card loses

Two Old Town museums, Niguliste (€15) and the Great Guild Hall (€14), come to €29 with nothing to spend on transport because you walk. The 24-hour card is €45, so you lose €16. Wandering the streets, churches and viewpoints costs nothing; see free things to do in Tallinn.

Public transport on the card

The card includes Tallinn’s buses, trolleybuses and trams for as long as it is valid. Hold the card’s QR code against the validator’s screen at the front door every time you board. If you keep the digital card in a mobile wallet, turn off NFC in your phone’s settings before you register it on public transport, or the validator charges you a single-ride ticket. Without the card, a one-hour ticket is €2 and the day ticket €5.50; see public transport in Tallinn.

The card also covers the airport trams T2 and T4, the ferry port and the railway station.

Fat Margaret and the town wall. Photo: Gunnar Bach Pedersen, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.

Skip the queue

Card holders can skip the line at the TV Tower, Kumu, the Kadriorg Art Museum, the Niguliste Museum and its viewing platform, and the Estonian Open Air Museum. Museums and sights are mostly closed on public holidays, and many close three hours early on 23 February, 22 June, 23 December and 31 December.

When to buy it and when to skip it

Buy it if:

• You will visit three or more big museums a day: Seaplane Harbour, Kumu, Kadriorg and the TV Tower together cost €72 at the gate.
• You have 48 or 72 hours: the 48-hour card is €65 and the 72-hour card €78, so extra days cost far less than the first.
• You travel with children under 7: up to two enter free with each adult card.

Skip it if:

• You mostly want the Old Town: the streets, viewpoints and churches are free.
• You arrive on a Monday: Kumu and the Kadriorg Art Museum are closed, and between October and April so are most of the other covered museums.
• You visit an Art Museum of Estonia branch on the last Wednesday of the month: entry to every branch costs €3 at the ticket office that day.
• You are a student or senior: the card has no concession price, while the museums do. A student ticket at Kumu is €11.

Next planning guides for Tallinn

• Plan your full itinerary: 3 days in Tallinn.
• Balance museum days with free sights: free things to do in Tallinn.
• Climb the city walls: Town Wall and Towers, including Kiek in de Kök.
• Where to eat: where to eat in Tallinn.
• Where to stay: where to stay in Tallinn.