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Los Angeles or Tirana?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Los Angeles
53
match

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

Tirana
51
match

Wins on value for money and good for families 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.

Los AngelesTirana
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 12 points.12
Los AngelesTirana
Score2917
Beaches 25 km11—
Beaches 10 km00
Swim season months05
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C—
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing—
Declared2026-08-25—
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json—
Coast distance—26 km
Water distance—26 km
Places to eat. Los Angeles leads by 11 points.11
Los AngelesTirana
Score6655
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,337572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2222
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 24 points.24
Los AngelesTirana
Score4925
Museums within 10 km6912
Museums within 2 km of centre238
Share of museums within 2 km %3367
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 4 points.4
Los AngelesTirana
Score5458
Drinking venues within 4 km660945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6572
Nightclubs within 4 km6429
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 13 points.13
Los AngelesTirana
Score6249
Protected land share 50 km %2611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %8083
Park area within 2 km20 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 19 points.19
Los AngelesTirana
Score3352
Tourist attractions within 2 km1121
Park area within 2 km20 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 1 points.1
Los AngelesTirana
Score5453
Notable places within 2 km8883
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 41 points.41
Los AngelesTirana
Score4384
Price level global10042.6
Daily budget—€76
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 20 points.20
Los AngelesTirana
Score8767
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months80
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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
No sunshine record
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. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesTirana
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 25 m
€600-640
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
12 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
15 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 35 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 35 m
€109-148
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
ViennaVIE
12 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
1 h 35 m
€150-202
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 10 m
€94-143
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
12 h 5 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
2 h 25 m
€74-123
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 45 m
no fares
LAX · 19 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

MeasureLos AngelesTirana
Official language–Albanian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Lek (ALL)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation106 m110 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesTirana
City population3,898,747389,323
People per km²2,9949,314
Museums within 10 km3811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4646
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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). 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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.