Pärnu County · Estonia
Where to stay in Pärnu
Pärnu is a city in Pärnu County, Estonia, home to about 42,000 people. This guide covers 1 apartment building in Pärnu, with about 47 rooms between them.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 1
- Best months
- June to August
- Nearest airport
- EPU4 km · Pärnu Airport
- Currency
- EUReuro
- Time zone
- Europe/Tallinn
- Language
- Estonian
About
About Pärnu
Pärnu is a city in southwest Estonia. Pärnu is located 128 kilometres (80 mi) south of the Estonian capital, Tallinn, and 176 kilometres (109 mi) west of Estonia's second-largest city, Tartu.
During the Great Northern War, the University of Tartu was relocated to Pärnu from 1699-1710. Tartu University still has a branch campus there. Pärnu is an ancient Hanseatic town, where a medieval festival and an arts and crafts fair are held every summer. It is also a popular place for conferences, theatre performances and concerts. In 1838 the first spa was opened and nowadays Pärnu is a health resort of international stature.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Pärnu
See
- The old town with buildings even from Medieval times
- Beautiful wooden villas
- The beach park and promenade
- Art galleries
- Pärnu Town Hall
- Tallinn Gate
- Church of Jekaterina
- Seegi Maja
- Statue of Raimond Valgre
- Eliisabet's Church
Do
- The Pärnu Jetty
- The beach promenade
- Sassi Talu
- Veekeskus
- Spa Estonia
- Tervise Paradiis
- Tervis Medical Spa Hotel
- Spa Hotel Viiking
- The Pärnu International Documentary and Anthropology Film Festival
- David Oistrahh festival
- Organ festival
- Bacardi Feeling Beach festival
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Where to stay
Places to stay in Pärnu
1 place to stay from the chains this guide covers, each linked to its own website.
| Place to stay | Rooms |
|---|---|
| Bob W Pärnu apartment building | 47 |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
When to go
The best time to visit Pärnu
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Pärnu are June to August. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; October is the wettest, with about 78 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Getting there
Getting to Pärnu: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Pärnu Airport (EPU), about 4.1 km from the city centre in a straight line; Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL, 116 km) and Kuressaare Airport (URE, 118 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
See Estonia for bus and train schedules. Buses arrive at the small bus station on the border of the old town. This bus station feels like a big bus stop because the terminal building is somewhat hidden on the opposite side of the street. The nearby fast-food kiosk opens early in the morning and caters to morning travellers while the whole city is still sleeping. Buses from Tallinn depart every hour and reach Pärnu in about two hours. You can also travel from Viljandi (1 hr) and Tartu (2½-3 hr), Kuressaare (3 hr), and Valga (2½ hr).
Getting around
The bus network covers the whole city, including the suburbs. There are 26 routes and their schedules can be found at pilet.ee. Load a mobile app to buy tickets. At summer free Kaubamajakas bus can be used. Read more under Estonia. Pärnu's old town is pretty small and navigable by foot and it's full of small boutiques. Lots of them are on Rüütli street.
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EPU · Pärnu Airport
TLL · Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport
URE · Kuressaare Airport
Local knowledge
Eating, drinking and staying safe in Pärnu
Drink
Pärnu has several clubs and lounges, most of them located in the center near Rüütli street. There are also many cozy terraces and pubs around the numerous parks in the summer time.
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Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Pärnu
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
of 1 place
of 1 place
Questions
Pärnu: questions travellers ask
When is the best time to visit Pärnu?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Pärnu are June to August. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 22 °C; October is the wettest, with about 78 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Pärnu?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Pärnu Airport (EPU), about 4.1 km from the city centre in a straight line; Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL, 116 km) and Kuressaare Airport (URE, 118 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Pärnu?
euro (EUR).
Nearby
Destinations near Pärnu
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.