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Beijing 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, 2 points apart

Beijing
53
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Tirana
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

BeijingTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
BeijingTirana
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance145 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 38 points.38
BeijingTirana
Score6325
Museums within 10 km9512
Museums within 2 km of centre158
Share of museums within 2 km %1667
Unesco sites within 50 km60
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 14 points.14
BeijingTirana
Score3549
Protected land share 50 km %311
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km143 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 25 points.25
BeijingTirana
Score7752
Tourist attractions within 2 km4121
Park area within 2 km143 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km120
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 3 points.3
BeijingTirana
Score5053
Notable places within 2 km6983
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 5 points.5
BeijingTirana
Score7984
Price level global4942.6
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 1 points.1
BeijingTirana
Score6667
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months80
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Beijing
No coastline within reach
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingTirana
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
8 h 50 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 0 m
€475-645
PEK · 25 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 10 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
9 h 5 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
AthensATH
9 h 35 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 15 m
€73-127
TIA · 13 km
PraguePRG
9 h 25 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
1 h 55 m
€90-115
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 5 m
€1,020-1172
2 stops
PEK · 25 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
AlmatyALA
4 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 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

MeasureBeijingTirana
Official languagePutonghuaAlbanian
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Lek (ALL)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119112
Elevation43 m110 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingTirana
City population21,893,095389,323
People per km²1,3349,314
Museums within 10 km8311
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre2946
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.