Hi! I am travelling in to Tallinn, to take my choir on a concert tour to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in June 2026. I personally would like to get into Europe (from eastern Canada) a few days early, to get my body clock adjusted and to rest before our busy tour schedule. Does anyone have suggestions for a their favourite big city with easy flights into Tallinn? Berlin? Warsaw? Frankfurt? Even Paris?
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I haven't visited the city of Frankfurt, but the other places you list have a lot to recommend them. You could also fly to Stockholm (more interesting than Helsinki) or Helsinki (worth a visit but not in Stockholm's league to me) and take a ferry to Tallinn. The ferry from Stockholm runs overnight, so you don't lose much sightseeing time, and there's a fabulous view of the Stockholm Archipelago in the first few hours after departure.
You haven't told us your starting point in Canada, so we cannot check flight schedules to see what flight itinerary might be practical for you. I'd look at flight times and fares first, then choose my pre-trip stop from among the options that looked acceptable. The Wikipedia entry for the Tallinn airport lists destinations with direct flights. Many of the flights are on budget airlines, so you have to pay attention to extra charges for seat selection as well as luggage. When you factor budget flights into the equation, your universe of practical stops expands greatly. When I'm looking for intra-European flights, I consult skyscanner.com; for transatlantic flights I use Google Flights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallinn_Airport
I imagine you are aware that a multi-city airline ticket would allow you to book a ticket into your choice of pre-trip city and out of Vilnius, as long as you can find an alliance with at least one airline serving Tallinn and one serving Vilnius. I wouldn't want to start the trip back to Canada with a separately-ticketed short hop on a budget airline; a problem with that flight could cause you to miss the transatlantic flight, requiring purchase of a very costly last-minute, one-way ticket home.