VacationSelector

London or Tirana?

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

Your match

London
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on museums & heritage and nightlife with your weighting.

Tirana
51
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

LondonTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
LondonTirana
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km470
Coast distance43 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. London leads by 33 points.33
LondonTirana
Score8855
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,317572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4022
Museums & heritage. London leads by 47 points.47
LondonTirana
Score7225
Museums within 10 km14812
Museums within 2 km of centre498
Share of museums within 2 km %3367
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. London leads by 37 points.37
LondonTirana
Score9558
Drinking venues within 4 km5,327945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,443683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4672
Nightclubs within 4 km31229
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 9 points.9
LondonTirana
Score4049
Protected land share 50 km %1611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %143
Land share of disc %9783
Park area within 2 km84 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 23 points.23
LondonTirana
Score7552
Tourist attractions within 2 km8521
Park area within 2 km84 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. London leads by 36 points.36
LondonTirana
Score8953
Notable places within 2 km64983
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 30 points.30
LondonTirana
Score5484
Price level global84.942.6
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 4 points.4
LondonTirana
Score6367
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 23.8 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 67 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months10
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.

J
F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
London
No coastline within reach
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2
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. London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromLondonTirana
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
4 h 5 m
€144-189
LGW · 40 km
1 h 55 m
€150-169
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€83-138
LGW · 40 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
AthensATH
3 h 30 m
€258-349
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
1 h 15 m
€73-127
TIA · 13 km
KatowiceKTW
2 h 15 m
no fares
LTN · 44 km
1 h 50 m
€73-87
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
MaltaMLA
3 h 5 m
no fares
LGW · 40 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 55 m
no fares
LTN · 44 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
AlmatyALA
7 h 15 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
6 h 5 m
€370-455
3 stops
TGD · 124 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 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 2026-08 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

MeasureLondonTirana
Official languageEnglishAlbanian
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Lek (ALL)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 999112
Elevation4 m110 m
Main airportLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLondonTirana
City population8,799,728389,323
People per km²5,5989,314
Museums within 10 km21511
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre11646
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow London or Tirana somewhere new.

Browse every destination we have measured

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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.