VacationSelector

Marseille or Tirana?

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

Your match

Marseille
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Tirana
51
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

MarseilleTirana
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 50 points.50
MarseilleTirana
Score6717
Swim season months25
Beaches 10 km640
Coast distance0 km26 km
Water distance0 km26 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 20 points.20
MarseilleTirana
Score7555
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,320572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3922
Museums & heritage. Marseille leads by 25 points.25
MarseilleTirana
Score5025
Museums within 10 km3312
Museums within 2 km of centre238
Share of museums within 2 km %7067
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 10 points.10
MarseilleTirana
Score4858
Drinking venues within 4 km544945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre454683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8372
Nightclubs within 4 km3029
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 12 points.12
MarseilleTirana
Score3749
Protected land share 50 km %1511
Landscape blanket share 50 km %133
Land share of disc %5683
Park area within 2 km25 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 8 points.8
MarseilleTirana
Score4452
Tourist attractions within 2 km1721
Park area within 2 km25 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Marseille leads by 5 points.5
MarseilleTirana
Score5853
Notable places within 2 km11183
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 22 points.22
MarseilleTirana
Score6284
Price level global73.742.6
Daily budget€160€76
Year-round weather. Marseille leads by 8 points.8
MarseilleTirana
Score7567
Monthly daytime high11.8 °C to 30.7 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall11 mm to 82 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months60
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
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4
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. Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMarseilleTirana
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€86-123
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
2 h 30 m
€97-142
TIA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
NantesNTE
1 h 30 m
€72-162
MRS · 21 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AthensATH
2 h 40 m
€160-212
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
1 h 15 m
€73-127
TIA · 13 km
BordeauxBOD
1 h 15 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 10 m
€94-143
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
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

MeasureMarseilleTirana
Official languageFrenchAlbanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m110 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMarseilleTirana
City population886,040389,323
People per km²3,6839,314
Museums within 10 km2711
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre9346
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 months5 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). 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. 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.