VacationSelector

Kyoto or Tirana?

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

Your match

Kyoto
✓ Best match
58
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat with your weighting.

Tirana
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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.

KyotoTirana
Beaches & swimming. Kyoto and Tirana are level on 17.
KyotoTirana
Score1717
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance47 km26 km
Water distance47 km26 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 29 points.29
KyotoTirana
Score8455
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5,023572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2222
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 47 points.47
KyotoTirana
Score7225
Museums within 10 km13212
Museums within 2 km of centre518
Share of museums within 2 km %3967
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 22 points.22
KyotoTirana
Score8058
Drinking venues within 4 km3,215945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,363683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7372
Nightclubs within 4 km2629
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 27 points.27
KyotoTirana
Score2249
Protected land share 50 km %211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %23
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km45 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Kyoto leads by 14 points.14
KyotoTirana
Score6652
Tourist attractions within 2 km6221
Park area within 2 km45 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 1 points.1
KyotoTirana
Score5253
Notable places within 2 km7983
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 14 points.14
KyotoTirana
Score7084
Price level global62.442.6
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 5 points.5
KyotoTirana
Score6267
Monthly daytime high8.6 °C to 32.4 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 232 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
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
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. Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromKyotoTirana
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
2 h 10 m
€94-143
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
DusseldorfDUS, NRN
11 h 30 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 25 m
€120-141
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 35 m
€109-148
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
1 h 25 m
€30-52
TIA · 13 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
11 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 81 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

MeasureKyotoTirana
Official languageJapaneseAlbanian
CurrencyYen (JPY)Lek (ALL)
SocketsAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the regionCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 110, fire 119112
Elevation51 m110 m
Main airportKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureKyotoTirana
City population1,463,723389,323
People per km²1,7689,314
Museums within 10 km7611
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8946
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.