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Bologna 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

Bologna
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Tirana
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

BolognaTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
BolognaTirana
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km20
Coast distance74 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Bologna leads by 3 points.3
BolognaTirana
Score5855
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2022
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 42 points.42
BolognaTirana
Score6725
Museums within 10 km5812
Museums within 2 km of centre438
Share of museums within 2 km %7467
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 5 points.5
BolognaTirana
Score5358
Drinking venues within 4 km720945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7472
Nightclubs within 4 km3029
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 10 points.10
BolognaTirana
Score3949
Protected land share 50 km %711
Landscape blanket share 50 km %13
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km119 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 3 points.3
BolognaTirana
Score5552
Tourist attractions within 2 km3221
Park area within 2 km119 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 7 points.7
BolognaTirana
Score6053
Notable places within 2 km12083
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 16 points.16
BolognaTirana
Score6884
Price level global64.942.6
Daily budget€155€76
Year-round weather. Bologna and Tirana are level on 67.
BolognaTirana
Score6767
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months50
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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Bologna
No coastline within reach
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaTirana
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 40 m
€41-45
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 25 m
€74-123
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AthensATH
2 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 15 m
€73-127
TIA · 13 km
KatowiceKTW
1 h 30 m
no fares
TSF · 145 km
1 h 50 m
€73-87
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 0 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 40 m
€289-462
1 stop
VRN · 106 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 138 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

MeasureBolognaTirana
Official languageItalianAlbanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation54 m110 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaTirana
City population387,971389,323
People per km²2,7549,314
Museums within 10 km6611
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre6246
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). 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.