VacationSelector

Antwerp 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, level with your weighting

Antwerp
51
match

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

Tirana
51
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

AntwerpTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
AntwerpTirana
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance21 km26 km
Water distance—26 km
Places to eat. Antwerp leads by 20 points.20
AntwerpTirana
Score7555
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,164572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4222
Museums & heritage. Antwerp leads by 44 points.44
AntwerpTirana
Score6925
Museums within 10 km4112
Museums within 2 km of centre278
Share of museums within 2 km %6667
Unesco sites within 50 km90
Nightlife. Antwerp leads by 1 points.1
AntwerpTirana
Score5958
Drinking venues within 4 km866945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre657683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7672
Nightclubs within 4 km7329
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 15 points.15
AntwerpTirana
Score3449
Protected land share 50 km %711
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %8083
Park area within 2 km53 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 6 points.6
AntwerpTirana
Score4652
Tourist attractions within 2 km1421
Park area within 2 km53 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Antwerp leads by 1 points.1
AntwerpTirana
Score5453
Notable places within 2 km8883
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 24 points.24
AntwerpTirana
Score6084
Price level global76.242.6
Daily budget€180€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 9 points.9
AntwerpTirana
Score5867
Monthly daytime high6.5 °C to 23.2 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 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
Antwerp
7
8
11
15
19
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Antwerp
No coastline within reach
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Antwerp
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Antwerp
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
Antwerp
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
5
4
2
1
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. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAntwerpTirana
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 36 km
2 h 25 m
€74-123
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 0 m
€41-51
BRU · 36 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 36 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€36-101
BRU · 36 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 36 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
AthensATH
3 h 10 m
€118-155
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 15 m
€73-127
TIA · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 36 km
1 h 25 m
€30-52
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 35 m
no fares
AMS · 123 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
€458-478
1 stop
AMS · 123 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

MeasureAntwerpTirana
Official languageFrench, German, DutchAlbanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m110 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpTirana
City population529,247389,323
People per km²2,5429,314
Museums within 10 km3811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km90
Distinct cuisines in the centre8046
Swim season, months above 21 °C–5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.