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Macau or Tirana?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Grand Lisboa above the Macau skyline, Macau
Macau

Photo: tian Jin, Pexels License

The Great Mosque with the mountains behind, Tirana
Tirana

Photo: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Your match

Macau
46
match

Wins on shopping and food and drink with your weighting.

Tirana
✓ Best match
49
match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

MacauTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 22 points.22
Food & drink. Macau leads by 20 points.20
Culture & sights. Macau leads by 20 points.20
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 18 points.18
Nature & outdoors. Tirana leads by 57 points.57
Day trips. Tirana leads by 12 points.12
Good for families. Macau leads by 8 points.8
Getting around. Macau leads by 6 points.6
Shopping & style. Macau leads by 26 points.26
Affordability. Tirana leads by 32 points.32
Live music & performing arts. Macau leads by 4 points.4
Wellness & relaxation. Macau leads by 13 points.13
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Macau and Tirana.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyMacauTirana
Daytime high32 °C31 °C
Night-time low26 °C17 °C
Rainfall in the month281 mm43 mm
Sunshine7 hours a day12 hours a day
Sea temperature29 °C24 °C
Daylight13 hours a day15 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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M
A
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Daytime high, °C
Macau
19
19
22
25
29
31
32
32
31
29
25
20
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Macau
19
19
20
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Macau
34
42
78
160
285
369
281
338
233
71
38
32
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Macau
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Macau
4
3
3
3
4
5
7
6
6
6
5
5
Tirana
4
4
5
6
9
10
12
11
9
7
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Macau: 1991-2020 normals, Taipa (3.9 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMacauTirana
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 41 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 40 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
12 h 0 m
€570-666
1 stop
HKG · 41 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
9 h 45 m
no fares
SZX · 57 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
MadridMAD
13 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 35 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
1 h 25 m
€30-52
TIA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 5 m
no fares
HKG · 41 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
BudapestBUD
10 h 40 m
no fares
SZX · 57 km
1 h 25 m
€58-106
TIA · 13 km
AlmatyALA
5 h 20 m
no fares
CAN · 136 km
6 h 5 m
€370-455
3 stops
TGD · 124 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
15 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 41 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

MeasureMacauTirana
Official languagePortuguese, Cantonese, Standard ChineseAlbanian
CurrencyPataca (MOP)Lek (ALL)
SocketsFGM220 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number999112
Elevation22 m110 m
Main airportMacau International Airport (MFM)7 km from centre41 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMacauTirana
City population682,100389,323
People per km²5,9169,314
Museums within 10 km2811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 months5 months

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Sources

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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.