VacationSelector

Edinburgh or Tirana?

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

Your match

Edinburgh
✓ Best match
58
match

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

Tirana
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.

EdinburghTirana
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh leads by 38 points.38
EdinburghTirana
Score5517
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km200
Coast distance3 km26 km
Water distance3 km26 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 15 points.15
EdinburghTirana
Score7055
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,023572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3522
Museums & heritage. Edinburgh leads by 32 points.32
EdinburghTirana
Score5725
Museums within 10 km3012
Museums within 2 km of centre228
Share of museums within 2 km %7367
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Edinburgh leads by 6 points.6
EdinburghTirana
Score6458
Drinking venues within 4 km1,193945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre884683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7472
Nightclubs within 4 km6529
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 14 points.14
EdinburghTirana
Score3549
Protected land share 50 km %211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %13
Land share of disc %8583
Park area within 2 km166 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 20 points.20
EdinburghTirana
Score7252
Tourist attractions within 2 km8721
Park area within 2 km166 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Edinburgh leads by 7 points.7
EdinburghTirana
Score6053
Notable places within 2 km12683
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 30 points.30
EdinburghTirana
Score5484
Price level global84.942.6
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 16 points.16
EdinburghTirana
Score5167
Monthly daytime high6.6 °C to 18.8 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 80 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
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
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. Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromEdinburghTirana
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
€75-101
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 35 m
€195-238
2 stops
EDI · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€150-169
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
PraguePRG
2 h 15 m
€135-214
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€90-115
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
€55-94
EDI · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€109-148
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AthensATH
4 h 0 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€73-127
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 35 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
6 h 55 m
no fares
EDI · 11 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

MeasureEdinburghTirana
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
Elevation47 m110 m
Main airportEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureEdinburghTirana
City population488,050389,323
People per km²1,8849,314
Museums within 10 km3211
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre7846
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.