VacationSelector

Granada 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, 2 points apart

Granada
53
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips 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.

GranadaTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
GranadaTirana
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance48 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Granada leads by 12 points.12
GranadaTirana
Score6755
Restaurants within 2 km of centre872572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3422
Museums & heritage. Granada leads by 23 points.23
GranadaTirana
Score4825
Museums within 10 km2812
Museums within 2 km of centre268
Share of museums within 2 km %9367
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 6 points.6
GranadaTirana
Score5258
Drinking venues within 4 km637945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre494683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7872
Nightclubs within 4 km4629
Nature & day trips. Granada leads by 14 points.14
GranadaTirana
Score6349
Protected land share 50 km %2711
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %9683
Park area within 2 km46 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Granada leads by 4 points.4
GranadaTirana
Score5652
Tourist attractions within 2 km6021
Park area within 2 km46 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 9 points.9
GranadaTirana
Score4453
Notable places within 2 km5083
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 13 points.13
GranadaTirana
Score7184
Price level global60.842.6
Daily budget€122€76
Year-round weather. Granada leads by 7 points.7
GranadaTirana
Score7467
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 34.8 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 51 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months70
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
Granada
13
15
18
20
25
31
35
34
29
24
17
14
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Granada
No coastline within reach
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Granada
39
33
45
44
29
6
0
3
28
45
51
44
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Granada
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
Granada
6
6
7
8
10
12
13
11
8
7
5
5
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. Granada: 1991-2020 normals, Granada / Caserío Hospicio (5 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromGranadaTirana
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
€67-129
AGP · 97 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€110-142
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
2 h 30 m
€97-142
TIA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 55 m
€146-177
AGP · 97 km
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 25 m
€61-88
AGP · 97 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
3 h 35 m
€107-122
AGP · 97 km
2 h 35 m
€109-148
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
4 h 15 m
€112-120
AGP · 97 km
3 h 5 m
€66-111
TIA · 13 km
DublinDUB
2 h 50 m
€122-139
1 stop
AGP · 97 km
3 h 25 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
no fares
GRX · 16 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
KatowiceKTW
3 h 30 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
1 h 50 m
€73-87
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 55 m
no fares
AGP · 97 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
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

MeasureGranadaTirana
Official languageSpanishAlbanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation693 m110 m
Main airportF.G.L. Airport Granada-Jaén Airport (GRX)16 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureGranadaTirana
City population233,975389,323
People per km²2,6599,314
Museums within 10 km1911
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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.