VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Tirana?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

Tirana
51
match

Wins on 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.

Hong KongTirana
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 70 points.70
Hong KongTirana
Score8717
Swim season months85
Beaches 10 km650
Coast distance0 km26 km
Water distance0 km26 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 33 points.33
Hong KongTirana
Score8855
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,325572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3222
Museums & heritage. Hong Kong leads by 11 points.11
Hong KongTirana
Score3625
Museums within 10 km5012
Museums within 2 km of centre178
Share of museums within 2 km %3467
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 13 points.13
Hong KongTirana
Score7158
Drinking venues within 4 km1,948945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5972
Nightclubs within 4 km3729
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 15 points.15
Hong KongTirana
Score6449
Protected land share 50 km %811
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %2983
Park area within 2 km52 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 6 points.6
Hong KongTirana
Score5852
Tourist attractions within 2 km2721
Park area within 2 km52 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 16 points.16
Hong KongTirana
Score6953
Notable places within 2 km20483
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 21 points.21
Hong KongTirana
Score6384
Price level global7242.6
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. Hong Kong leads by 7 points.7
Hong KongTirana
Score7467
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months40
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
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongTirana
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
9 h 45 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
2 h 10 m
€94-143
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 5 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
BudapestBUD
10 h 40 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
1 h 25 m
€58-106
TIA · 13 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 30 m
€97-142
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
15 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 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

MeasureHong KongTirana
Official languageStandard ChineseAlbanian
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Lek (ALL)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation7 m110 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongTirana
City population7,413,070389,323
People per km²9,314
Museums within 10 km3911
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7646
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.