Changelog

A new page reads Statistics Estonia's monthly accommodation figures for the town and sets them beside the number of people who live here. In July 2026 about 3,000 people slept in registered hotels, spas and guesthouses on an average night, roughly 7 for every 100 residents, and January holds about 1,300. It does not count day visitors, second homes or most private lets, so the real summer crowd is larger; the page says so.

A new calculator compares what it actually costs, over a year, to drive into the centre and park against taking the bus — priced from the city's own parking tariff, PÜTK's bus fares, and this week's average Estonian fuel price. There's no park-and-ride in Pärnu today, so this compares the two real choices rather than a third that doesn't exist.

The ticket-price page was showing euro amounts the English way (a period, where this page's own figures read a comma). Fixed.

Our culture notes listed it as an annual summer fixture. It ran four editions at Pärnu beach, 2015 to 2018, and the last was that August. The notes now carry the autumn dates that were missing instead — the Two Bridges Race on the first weekend of September, and ÖÖvalgel at the turn of October.

It had been showing grades copied by hand on 13 July. It now reads Terviseamet's national register on every visit, so each beach carries its own last sample date — 10 August for the city beaches — beside its four-year class, with the laboratory results underneath. It also says plainly that sampling stopped with the season on 31 August, which the old page had no way of telling you.

Beach parking is charged 1 May to 31 August, Supeluse tänav is car-free from 18 May, the lifeguards and the water testing run 1 June to 31 August, and Valgerand keeps its own season to 15 September. Those dates decide a lot and were scattered across four council pages. They are now on one page, in the order they come around, with Hansapäevad, the Music Festival, the Two Bridges Race and ÖÖvalgel alongside them.

Pärnu's flood risk is a winter one. The bay is shallow, the town is flat, and a January storm pushes the sea up over ground that is dry all summer — so how far the water comes depends entirely on where you are standing. The sea-level page tells you how high the water is right now. It cannot tell you what that means at your own address. Type an address and this reads Estonia's official flood hazard maps for that point: which of the four scenarios reach it, from the flood expected about once in ten years to the one expected about once in a thousand. The difference across the town is large. The harbour end is inside all four. The main pedestrian street is inside only the rarest. The eastern approaches are in none of them. The levels are given in metres in the EH2000 height system — the same scale the sea-level page uses for its warning steps, so the two can be read together. What the maps show is water standing at a given height laid over the ground, not a forecast of a particular storm: they leave out how porous the ground is, how much rain falls and which way the wind blows. And an address outside the mapped area is told exactly that, rather than being told no flood reaches it. The maps are the Climate Ministry's and the Environment Agency's, published under the EU Floods Directive. The address search is the Land Board's.

Pärnu's city and county buses share one card, but free travel starts at 65 on the city lines and 63 on the county ones, and the cheaper city fares need a personalised card rather than just a registered address. Say who you are and how often you travel, and the page prices every option and names the cheapest. The whole published table is on the page as text.

Pärnu's pages are open, with three tools to start: what parking costs since the town rewrote the rules on 1 June 2026, whether the water at each beach is fine to swim in, and a live reading of the sea against the Weather Service's own flood warning levels for the town. The parking tool works out the free first minutes people most often lose, and the sea-level board carries the January 2005 benchmark — including the fact that the 2005 figures are on the old height datum and are not directly comparable to today's numbers.

Eight documents on the town off-season as well as in July: the parking rules that changed on 1 June, the dates the beach season actually starts and ends, and the 2005 storm surge that still sets the flood benchmark.