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Mustamäe

Mustamäe is one of the 8 administrative districts of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

Mustamäe
Mustamäe · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Mustamäe is one of the 8 administrative districts of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. The smallest by area, it is at the same time the second largest district by population with 66,305 inhabitants .

It is located 5 km from the centre of Tallinn and is bordered by the districts of Haabersti, Nõmme, and Kristiine. Local housing is mostly represented by panel blocks of flats five to nine storeys high, built in the 1960 to 1970s.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Mustamäe

Airports
Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 9 km · Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 103 km · Turku (TKU), 183 km
  • Helsinki (Vantaa) → Mustamäe
    103 km · quickest by road, 4h 7m · €11–16
  • Turku → Mustamäe
    178 km · quickest by road, 5h 24m · €26–36
  • Tampere / Pirkkala → Mustamäe
    231 km · quickest by road, 5h 48m · €28–39
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mustamäe

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mustamäe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inAll ferries dock at Reisisadam port, to the north of the centre.
  • Get inThe most common ferry route is from Helsinki, Finland to Tallinn Port, which has upwards of 20 departures daily.
  • Get inDepending on the ferry, journey time is 1½–3½ hours.
  • Get inAll ferries also carry cars, from €25 one way.
  • Get inBikes on car ferries must go through vehicle check-in, which closes earlier than passenger check-in, so plan for extra time.

From Wikivoyage: Tallinn, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01178 km
  2. 02
    Turku and the archipelago gatewayFI

    11 ways of moving, 13 sources

    178 km
  3. 03
    Iniö and the Turku archipelago ring roadFI

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    214 km
  4. 04
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

    238 km
  5. 05
    Åland (Mariehamn and Fasta Åland)FI

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    277 km

If you know how people move in Mustamäe – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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Next door to Mustamäe

Mustamäe is 5 km from Tallinn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.