VacationSelector

Belfast or Tirana?

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

Your match

Belfast
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Tirana
✓ Best match
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.

BelfastTirana
Beaches & swimming. Belfast leads by 31 points.31
BelfastTirana
Score4817
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km100
Coast distance1 km26 km
Water distance1 km26 km
Places to eat. Belfast leads by 1 points.1
BelfastTirana
Score5655
Restaurants within 2 km of centre432572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3122
Museums & heritage. Belfast leads by 4 points.4
BelfastTirana
Score2925
Museums within 10 km1812
Museums within 2 km of centre68
Share of museums within 2 km %3367
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 10 points.10
BelfastTirana
Score4858
Drinking venues within 4 km550945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6372
Nightclubs within 4 km2929
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 4 points.4
BelfastTirana
Score5349
Protected land share 50 km %1911
Landscape blanket share 50 km %133
Land share of disc %6583
Park area within 2 km68 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 4 points.4
BelfastTirana
Score4852
Tourist attractions within 2 km1621
Park area within 2 km68 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 11 points.11
BelfastTirana
Score4253
Notable places within 2 km4383
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 30 points.30
BelfastTirana
Score5484
Price level global84.942.6
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 16 points.16
BelfastTirana
Score5167
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 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
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastTirana
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 55 m
€150-169
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
KatowiceKTW
2 h 45 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
1 h 50 m
€73-87
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 50 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
MaltaMLA
3 h 45 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 0 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 50 m
€449-527
1 stop
DUB · 132 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

MeasureBelfastTirana
Official languageEnglishAlbanian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Lek (ALL)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation3 m110 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastTirana
City population345,006389,323
People per km²3,0009,314
Museums within 10 km811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4446
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). 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. 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.