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The Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken, Interlaken
InterlakenThe Aare at Unterseen, Interlaken
The Great Mosque with the mountains behind, Tirana
TiranaThe Great Mosque with the mountains behind

Photos: Interlaken by Roy Egloff, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Tirana by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Interlaken or Tirana?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Interlaken for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Interlaken’s own page.

Choose Tirana for

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Tirana’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Interlaken 30, Tirana 46: Tirana leads by 16 points.
Food & drink. Interlaken 25, Tirana 57: Tirana leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. Interlaken 8, Tirana 42: Tirana leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Interlaken 15, Tirana 58: Tirana leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Interlaken 97, Tirana 62: Interlaken leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Interlaken 78, Tirana 64: Interlaken leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Interlaken 72, Tirana 40: Interlaken leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Interlaken 80, Tirana 54: Interlaken leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Interlaken 22, Tirana 32: Tirana leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Interlaken 8, Tirana 76: Tirana leads by 68 points.
Live music & performing arts. Interlaken 15, Tirana 32: Tirana leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Interlaken 40, Tirana 27: Interlaken leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Interlaken and Tirana.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Interlaken
41match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

Tirana
Best match
49match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Interlaken in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
126 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Tirana in July

31 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
43 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Interlaken has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureInterlakenTirana
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshAlbanian
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation571 m110 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre226 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenTirana
City population6,123389,323
People per km²1,4249,314
Museums within 10 km311
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.