VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Tirana?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Amsterdam
✓ Best match
65
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat with your weighting.

Tirana
51
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AmsterdamTirana
Beaches & swimming. Amsterdam leads by 23 points.23
AmsterdamTirana
Score4017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km330
Coast distance24 km26 km
Water distance24 km26 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 28 points.28
AmsterdamTirana
Score8355
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,957572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4422
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 55 points.55
AmsterdamTirana
Score8025
Museums within 10 km9812
Museums within 2 km of centre698
Share of museums within 2 km %7067
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 12 points.12
AmsterdamTirana
Score7058
Drinking venues within 4 km1,543945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7072
Nightclubs within 4 km11429
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 11 points.11
AmsterdamTirana
Score6049
Protected land share 50 km %2111
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %8283
Park area within 2 km49 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Amsterdam leads by 16 points.16
AmsterdamTirana
Score6852
Tourist attractions within 2 km7421
Park area within 2 km49 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 15 points.15
AmsterdamTirana
Score6853
Notable places within 2 km19683
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 26 points.26
AmsterdamTirana
Score5884
Price level global79.242.6
Daily budget€181€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 10 points.10
AmsterdamTirana
Score5767
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Tirana
4
4
5
6
9
10
12
11
9
7
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamTirana
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€178-300
AMS · 12 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€166-175
AMS · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 0 m
€179-192
AMS · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
€106-155
AMS · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 10 m
€130-171
AMS · 12 km
2 h 25 m
€74-123
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€171-212
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
2 h 35 m
€109-148
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AthensATH
3 h 15 m
€191-265
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€73-127
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 35 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
€458-478
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAmsterdamTirana
Official languageDutchAlbanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation-2 m110 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamTirana
City population921,468389,323
People per km²4,2089,314
Museums within 10 km10111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre9846
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.