VacationSelector

Mexico City or Tirana?

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

Your match

Mexico City
✓ Best match
62
match

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

Tirana
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

Mexico CityTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
Mexico CityTirana
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance247 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Mexico City leads by 11 points.11
Mexico CityTirana
Score6655
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,179572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1522
Museums & heritage. Mexico City leads by 54 points.54
Mexico CityTirana
Score7925
Museums within 10 km13812
Museums within 2 km of centre658
Share of museums within 2 km %4767
Unesco sites within 50 km60
Nightlife. Mexico City leads by 20 points.20
Mexico CityTirana
Score7858
Drinking venues within 4 km2,156945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre926683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4372
Nightclubs within 4 km19829
Nature & day trips. Mexico City leads by 14 points.14
Mexico CityTirana
Score6349
Protected land share 50 km %3011
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km32 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 2 points.2
Mexico CityTirana
Score5052
Tourist attractions within 2 km2321
Park area within 2 km32 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Mexico City leads by 1 points.1
Mexico CityTirana
Score5453
Notable places within 2 km8883
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 8 points.8
Mexico CityTirana
Score7684
Price level global54.242.6
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. Mexico City leads by 23 points.23
Mexico CityTirana
Score9067
Monthly daytime high22.2 °C to 27.9 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 186 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
Mexico City
22
25
26
28
27
26
25
25
24
23
23
22
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Mexico City
No coastline within reach
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Mexico City
7
3
19
27
53
127
176
186
144
79
10
9
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Mexico City
11
12
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Mexico City
8
8
9
8
8
6
6
6
5
6
7
7
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. Mexico City: 1991-2020 normals, Mexico Central, D. F. (7.9 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMexico CityTirana
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 10 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 50 m
€883-934
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
2 h 25 m
€74-123
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
4 h 30 m
€367-420
1 stop
MEX · 7 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
14 h 5 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 10 m
€94-143
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
12 h 40 m
no fares
MEX · 7 km
1 h 25 m
€30-52
TIA · 13 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
17 h 30 m
€1,075-1211
2 stops
MEX · 7 km
5 h 5 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

MeasureMexico CityTirana
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaAlbanian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Lek (ALL)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2,240 m110 m
Main airportMexico City Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX)7 km from centre95 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMexico CityTirana
City population9,209,944389,323
People per km²6,2029,314
Museums within 10 km10811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre5046
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). 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. 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.