VacationSelector

Genoa or Tirana?

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

Your match

Genoa
✓ Best match
56
match

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

Tirana
51
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

GenoaTirana
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 56 points.56
GenoaTirana
Score7317
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km370
Coast distance0 km26 km
Water distance0 km26 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 5 points.5
GenoaTirana
Score5055
Restaurants within 2 km of centre691572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1422
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 30 points.30
GenoaTirana
Score5525
Museums within 10 km4712
Museums within 2 km of centre338
Share of museums within 2 km %7067
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 8 points.8
GenoaTirana
Score5058
Drinking venues within 4 km637945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6672
Nightclubs within 4 km1729
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 14 points.14
GenoaTirana
Score3549
Protected land share 50 km %811
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %6183
Park area within 2 km29 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 14 points.14
GenoaTirana
Score3852
Tourist attractions within 2 km2121
Park area within 2 km29 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 8 points.8
GenoaTirana
Score6153
Notable places within 2 km13083
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 16 points.16
GenoaTirana
Score6884
Price level global64.942.6
Daily budget€155€76
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 6 points.6
GenoaTirana
Score7367
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months30
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
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
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
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
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. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGenoaTirana
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
AthensATH
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
1 h 15 m
€73-127
TIA · 13 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 40 m
€39-54
MXP · 137 km
1 h 25 m
€58-106
TIA · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
2 h 10 m
€94-143
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 50 m
€119-204
MXP · 137 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
€93-109
MXP · 137 km
2 h 35 m
€109-148
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 35 m
€78-142
MXP · 137 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
PraguePRG
1 h 25 m
€44-94
MXP · 137 km
1 h 55 m
€90-115
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AlmatyALA
6 h 50 m
no fares
MXP · 137 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

MeasureGenoaTirana
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
Elevation20 m110 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaTirana
City population558,745389,323
People per km²2,3259,314
Museums within 10 km5111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4146
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.