VacationSelector

Antalya or Tirana?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Antalya
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Tirana
51
match

Wins on sights concentration and good for families 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.

AntalyaTirana
Beaches & swimming. Antalya leads by 55 points.55
AntalyaTirana
Score7217
Swim season months75
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance1 km26 km
Water distance1 km26 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 10 points.10
AntalyaTirana
Score4555
Restaurants within 2 km of centre638572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1122
Museums & heritage. Antalya and Tirana are level on 25.
AntalyaTirana
Score2525
Museums within 10 km1112
Museums within 2 km of centre88
Share of museums within 2 km %7367
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Antalya leads by 1 points.1
AntalyaTirana
Score5958
Drinking venues within 4 km917945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre516683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5672
Nightclubs within 4 km5529
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 8 points.8
AntalyaTirana
Score4149
Protected land share 50 km %811
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %6983
Park area within 2 km69 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 12 points.12
AntalyaTirana
Score4052
Tourist attractions within 2 km621
Park area within 2 km69 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 26 points.26
AntalyaTirana
Score2753
Notable places within 2 km1983
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Antalya leads by 5 points.5
AntalyaTirana
Score8984
Price level global35.242.6
Daily budget€100€76
Year-round weather. Antalya leads by 4 points.4
AntalyaTirana
Score7167
Monthly daytime high15.3 °C to 34.8 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall2 mm to 273 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months40
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
Antalya
15
16
19
22
26
31
35
35
32
27
22
17
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Antalya
18
17
17
18
21
25
28
29
28
25
22
20
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Antalya
215
114
97
63
41
8
2
2
18
80
145
273
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Antalya
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Antalya
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
9
8
6
5
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. Antalya: 1991-2020 normals, Antalya (23.4 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntalyaTirana
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 15 m
€53-68
AYT · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 5 m
€125-143
AYT · 9 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 50 m
€147-160
AYT · 9 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
KatowiceKTW
2 h 45 m
€200-201
AYT · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€73-87
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
CologneCGN
3 h 30 m
€164-202
AYT · 9 km
2 h 20 m
€143-203
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 35 m
€145-183
AYT · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€120-141
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
PoznanPOZ
3 h 5 m
€218-336
2 stops
AYT · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€88-118
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 45 m
no fares
AYT · 9 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 20 m
€171-231
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€94-143
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AlmatyALA
5 h 20 m
€280-315
1 stop
AYT · 9 km
6 h 5 m
€370-455
3 stops
TGD · 124 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

MeasureAntalyaTirana
Official languageTurkishAlbanian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation30 m110 m
Main airportAntalya International Airport (AYT)9 km from centre33 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntalyaTirana
City population2,426,356389,323
People per km²1,7129,314
Museums within 10 km511
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre2246
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months5 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). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.