VacationSelector

Lucerne or Tirana?

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

Your match

Lucerne
33
match

Wins on museums & heritage with your weighting.

Tirana
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on value for money 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.

LucerneTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
LucerneTirana
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km160
Coast distance669 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 8 points.8
LucerneTirana
Score4755
Restaurants within 2 km of centre269572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2522
Museums & heritage. Lucerne leads by 15 points.15
LucerneTirana
Score4025
Museums within 10 km2312
Museums within 2 km of centre138
Share of museums within 2 km %5767
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 30 points.30
LucerneTirana
Score2858
Drinking venues within 4 km202945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre151683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7572
Nightclubs within 4 km1129
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 24 points.24
LucerneTirana
Score2549
Protected land share 50 km %711
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km29 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 14 points.14
LucerneTirana
Score3852
Tourist attractions within 2 km1521
Park area within 2 km29 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 18 points.18
LucerneTirana
Score3553
Notable places within 2 km2983
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 49 points.49
LucerneTirana
Score3584
Price level global110.542.6
Daily budget€248€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 14 points.14
LucerneTirana
Score5367
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 24.3 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall60 mm to 128 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
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Lucerne
No coastline within reach
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1
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. Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLucerneTirana
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 55 m
€164-214
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
AthensATH
2 h 35 m
€213-216
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 15 m
€73-127
TIA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 15 m
€154-180
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 55 m
€150-169
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€174-215
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
1 h 35 m
€150-202
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 20 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 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

MeasureLucerneTirana
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshAlbanian
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation436 m110 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneTirana
City population86,234389,323
People per km²2,9639,314
Museums within 10 km1411
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4646
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. 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.