VacationSelector

La Spezia or Tirana?

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

Your match

La Spezia
43
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Tirana
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

La SpeziaTirana
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 56 points.56
La SpeziaTirana
Score7317
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km320
Coast distance0 km26 km
Water distance0 km26 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 24 points.24
La SpeziaTirana
Score3155
Restaurants within 2 km of centre235572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1122
Museums & heritage. La Spezia leads by 17 points.17
La SpeziaTirana
Score4225
Museums within 10 km1512
Museums within 2 km of centre108
Share of museums within 2 km %6767
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 34 points.34
La SpeziaTirana
Score2458
Drinking venues within 4 km208945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre176683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8572
Nightclubs within 4 km129
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 3 points.3
La SpeziaTirana
Score5249
Protected land share 50 km %1311
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %5183
Park area within 2 km23 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 32 points.32
La SpeziaTirana
Score2052
Tourist attractions within 2 km321
Park area within 2 km23 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 46 points.46
La SpeziaTirana
Score753
Notable places within 2 km683
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 16 points.16
La SpeziaTirana
Score6884
Price level global64.942.6
Daily budget€155€76
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 3 points.3
La SpeziaTirana
Score7067
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months20
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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
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLa SpeziaTirana
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
1 h 25 m
€30-52
TIA · 13 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 35 m
€55-66
PSA · 65 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 30 m
€97-142
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 0 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 15 m
€102-140
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
2 h 35 m
€109-148
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
WroclawWRO
1 h 50 m
€84-105
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
2 h 0 m
€85-125
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€210-262
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 35 m
no fares
BLQ · 125 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureLa SpeziaTirana
Official languageItalianAlbanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation3 m110 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaTirana
City population92,119389,323
People per km²1,7929,314
Museums within 10 km1211
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2246
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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. 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.