VacationSelector

Faro or Tirana?

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

Your match

Faro
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Tirana
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nightlife and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

FaroTirana
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 44 points.44
FaroTirana
Score6117
Swim season months35
Beaches 10 km130
Coast distance0 km26 km
Water distance0 km26 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 11 points.11
FaroTirana
Score4455
Restaurants within 2 km of centre255572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2222
Museums & heritage. Tirana leads by 3 points.3
FaroTirana
Score2225
Museums within 10 km912
Museums within 2 km of centre88
Share of museums within 2 km %8967
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 37 points.37
FaroTirana
Score2158
Drinking venues within 4 km143945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8672
Nightclubs within 4 km829
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 8 points.8
FaroTirana
Score5749
Protected land share 50 km %1111
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %4283
Park area within 2 km34 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 16 points.16
FaroTirana
Score3652
Tourist attractions within 2 km1021
Park area within 2 km34 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 31 points.31
FaroTirana
Score2253
Notable places within 2 km1483
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 10 points.10
FaroTirana
Score7484
Price level global55.942.6
Daily budget€109€76
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 16 points.16
FaroTirana
Score8367
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months60
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
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. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroTirana
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€75-114
FAO · 3 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 30 m
€97-142
TIA · 13 km
ManchesterMAN
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
KatowiceKTW
3 h 45 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
1 h 50 m
€73-87
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
4 h 0 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 0 m
€138-208
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
2 h 25 m
€120-141
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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 2026-09 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

MeasureFaroTirana
Official languagePortugueseAlbanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation10 m110 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureFaroTirana
City population64,560389,323
People per km²3199,314
Museums within 10 km211
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3446
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months5 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). 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. 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.