VacationSelector

Goreme or Tirana?

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

Your match

Goreme
32
match

Wins on value for money with your weighting.

Tirana
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

GoremeTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
GoremeTirana
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance205 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 25 points.25
GoremeTirana
Score3055
Restaurants within 2 km of centre100572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2122
Museums & heritage. Tirana leads by 13 points.13
GoremeTirana
Score1225
Museums within 10 km1012
Museums within 2 km of centre18
Share of museums within 2 km %1067
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 46 points.46
GoremeTirana
Score1258
Drinking venues within 4 km99945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre58683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5972
Nightclubs within 4 km229
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 23 points.23
GoremeTirana
Score2649
Protected land share 50 km %1111
Landscape blanket share 50 km %103
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km147 hectares
Good for families. Goreme and Tirana are level on 52.
GoremeTirana
Score5252
Tourist attractions within 2 km5121
Park area within 2 km147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 53 points.53
GoremeTirana
Score053
Notable places within 2 km283
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Goreme leads by 5 points.5
GoremeTirana
Score8984
Price level global35.242.6
Daily budget€100€76
Year-round weather. Goreme and Tirana are level on 67.
GoremeTirana
Score6767
Monthly daytime high4.6 °C to 29.8 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 59 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
Goreme
5
7
12
16
22
26
30
30
25
20
12
7
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Goreme
No coastline within reach
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Goreme
54
42
53
42
59
53
13
7
15
30
32
48
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Goreme
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Goreme
3
4
5
7
9
11
13
12
9
7
5
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. Goreme: 1991-2020 normals, Nevsehir (10.2 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGoremeTirana
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€84-89
NAV · 29 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 15 m
€98-131
ASR · 60 km
1 h 55 m
€150-169
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
3 h 45 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
2 h 25 m
€120-141
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
IzmirADB
1 h 30 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
1 h 35 m
€208-256
TGD · 124 km
CologneCGN
3 h 45 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
2 h 20 m
€143-203
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 55 m
€230-246
1 stop
ASR · 60 km
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
StuttgartSTR
3 h 25 m
€184-216
1 stop
ASR · 60 km
2 h 0 m
€129-234
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 35 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
2 h 10 m
€94-143
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 20 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
PraguePRG
3 h 10 m
no fares
ASR · 60 km
1 h 55 m
€90-115
1 stop
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

MeasureGoremeTirana
Official languageTurkishAlbanian
CurrencyTurkish Lira (TRY)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation1,100 m110 m
Main airportKayseri Erkilet International Airport (ASR)60 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGoremeTirana
City population2,000389,323
People per km²209,314
Museums within 10 km511
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3846
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). 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. 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.

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.