VacationSelector

Heidelberg or Tirana?

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

Your match

Heidelberg
45
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Tirana
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

HeidelbergTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
HeidelbergTirana
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km60
Coast distance406 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 8 points.8
HeidelbergTirana
Score4755
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2622
Museums & heritage. Heidelberg leads by 34 points.34
HeidelbergTirana
Score5925
Museums within 10 km5412
Museums within 2 km of centre238
Share of museums within 2 km %4367
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 31 points.31
HeidelbergTirana
Score2758
Drinking venues within 4 km201945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre169683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8472
Nightclubs within 4 km829
Nature & day trips. Heidelberg leads by 25 points.25
HeidelbergTirana
Score7449
Protected land share 50 km %5211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %223
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km20 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 9 points.9
HeidelbergTirana
Score4352
Tourist attractions within 2 km2921
Park area within 2 km20 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
HeidelbergTirana
Score3653
Notable places within 2 km3183
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 24 points.24
HeidelbergTirana
Score6084
Price level global75.942.6
Daily budget€163€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 6 points.6
HeidelbergTirana
Score6167
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 25.8 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall45 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
Heidelberg
5
7
12
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Heidelberg
No coastline within reach
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Heidelberg
46
46
53
45
69
66
80
67
56
61
62
64
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Heidelberg
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Heidelberg
2
3
4
6
7
7
8
7
6
4
2
1
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. Heidelberg: 1991-2020 normals, Heidelberg (4.5 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHeidelbergTirana
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 25 m
€74-124
FRA · 69 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 10 m
€139-148
FRA · 69 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 45 m
€142-154
FRA · 69 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 50 m
€135-301
FRA · 69 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 15 m
€71-108
FRA · 69 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
AthensATH
2 h 50 m
€178-223
1 stop
FRA · 69 km
1 h 15 m
€73-127
TIA · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 20 m
€264-346
FRA · 69 km
1 h 55 m
€150-169
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 10 m
no fares
FRA · 69 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 10 m
€628-668
FRA · 69 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
AlmatyALA
6 h 40 m
no fares
FRA · 69 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 2026-09 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

MeasureHeidelbergTirana
Official languageGermanAlbanian
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
Elevation114 m110 m
Main airportFrankfurt Main Airport (FRA)69 km from centre293 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHeidelbergTirana
City population162,960389,323
People per km²1,4969,314
Museums within 10 km1711
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre4546
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.