VacationSelector

Maastricht or Tirana?

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

Your match

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage with your weighting.

Tirana
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nightlife and value for money 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.

MaastrichtTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
MaastrichtTirana
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km60
Coast distance118 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 7 points.7
MaastrichtTirana
Score4855
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2222
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 28 points.28
MaastrichtTirana
Score5325
Museums within 10 km2312
Museums within 2 km of centre138
Share of museums within 2 km %5767
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 28 points.28
MaastrichtTirana
Score3058
Drinking venues within 4 km223945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre182683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8272
Nightclubs within 4 km1329
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 12 points.12
MaastrichtTirana
Score3749
Protected land share 50 km %1911
Landscape blanket share 50 km %113
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km33 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 6 points.6
MaastrichtTirana
Score4652
Tourist attractions within 2 km1521
Park area within 2 km33 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
MaastrichtTirana
Score3653
Notable places within 2 km3283
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 26 points.26
MaastrichtTirana
Score5884
Price level global79.242.6
Daily budget€181€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 8 points.8
MaastrichtTirana
Score5967
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Maastricht
No coastline within reach
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
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. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMaastrichtTirana
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 55 m
€123-157
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
1 h 25 m
€58-106
TIA · 13 km
KatowiceKTW
1 h 50 m
€120-159
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
1 h 50 m
€73-87
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 25 m
€30-52
TIA · 13 km
GdanskGDN
1 h 45 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
2 h 20 m
€95-224
TIA · 13 km
AthensATH
3 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 15 m
€73-127
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 30 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 85 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

MeasureMaastrichtTirana
Official languageDutchAlbanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112 or 911112
Elevation49 m110 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtTirana
City population120,227389,323
People per km²2,0009,314
Museums within 10 km2111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre3346
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). 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. 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.