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Nõmme

Nõmme is one of the eight administrative districts of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

Nõmme
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The place

Nõmme is one of the eight administrative districts of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. It has a population of 37,147 and covers an area of 28 km2 (11 sq mi), population density is 1,326.7/km2 (3,436/sq mi). The district is largely a middle-class, suburban area, mostly consisting of listed private homes from the 1920s and 1930s and is sometimes referred to as the "Forest Town."

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Nõmme

Airports
Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 10 km · Helsinki Vantaa (HEL), 106 km · Turku (TKU), 185 km
  • Helsinki (Vantaa) → Nõmme
    106 km · quickest by road, 4h 9m · €11–16
  • Turku → Nõmme
    180 km · quickest by road, 5h 26m · €26–37
  • Tampere / Pirkkala → Nõmme
    234 km · quickest by road, 5h 50m · €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 Nõmme

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 Nõmme. 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. 01180 km
  2. 02
    Turku and the archipelago gatewayFI

    11 ways of moving, 13 sources

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

    9 ways of moving, 30 sources

    216 km
  4. 04
    Kumlinge and the Åland archipelagoFI

    11 ways of moving, 40 sources

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

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    278 km

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

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Next door to Nõmme

Nõmme is 8 km from Tallinn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.