VacationSelector

Lima or Tirana?

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

Your match

Lima
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

Tirana
51
match

Wins on nature & day trips and nightlife 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.

LimaTirana
Beaches & swimming. Lima leads by 20 points.20
LimaTirana
Score3717
Swim season months25
Beaches 10 km120
Coast distance6 km26 km
Water distance6 km26 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 3 points.3
LimaTirana
Score5255
Restaurants within 2 km of centre796572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1422
Museums & heritage. Lima leads by 39 points.39
LimaTirana
Score6425
Museums within 10 km8912
Museums within 2 km of centre478
Share of museums within 2 km %5367
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 13 points.13
LimaTirana
Score4558
Drinking venues within 4 km409945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre177683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4372
Nightclubs within 4 km6329
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 22 points.22
LimaTirana
Score2749
Protected land share 50 km %211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %5183
Park area within 2 km54 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Lima leads by 4 points.4
LimaTirana
Score5652
Tourist attractions within 2 km2521
Park area within 2 km54 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 7 points.7
LimaTirana
Score4653
Notable places within 2 km5483
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 4 points.4
LimaTirana
Score8084
Price level global47.742.6
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. Lima leads by 25 points.25
LimaTirana
Score9267
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 27.4 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 1 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months120
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
Lima
26
27
27
25
22
20
19
19
19
20
22
24
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Lima
21
22
21
20
19
18
18
17
17
17
18
19
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Lima
1
1
0
0
1
1
1
1
1
1
0
1
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Lima
13
13
12
12
12
11
12
12
12
12
13
13
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lima
5
5
6
6
3
1
1
1
1
2
3
4
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. Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLimaTirana
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
12 h 45 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
MadridMAD
11 h 50 m
€895-903
LIM · 9 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 0 m
no fares
LIM · 9 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 25 m
€898-998
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
2 h 25 m
€74-123
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
13 h 5 m
€876-946
1 stop
LIM · 9 km
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
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 2026-08 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

MeasureLimaTirana
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, QuechuaAlbanian
CurrencySol (PEN)Lek (ALL)
SocketsABC220 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number111 or 911112
Elevation154 m110 m
Main airportJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre63 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLimaTirana
City population9,943,800389,323
People per km²3,7219,314
Museums within 10 km4611
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3346
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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). 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. 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.