VacationSelector

Miami or Tirana?

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

Your match

Miami
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Tirana
51
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MiamiTirana
Beaches & swimming. Miami leads by 78 points.78
MiamiTirana
Score9517
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km200
Coast distance1 km26 km
Water distance1 km26 km
Places to eat. Miami leads by 10 points.10
MiamiTirana
Score6555
Restaurants within 2 km of centre898572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2922
Museums & heritage. Tirana leads by 2 points.2
MiamiTirana
Score2325
Museums within 10 km2812
Museums within 2 km of centre68
Share of museums within 2 km %2167
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 8 points.8
MiamiTirana
Score5058
Drinking venues within 4 km538945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre287683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5372
Nightclubs within 4 km6329
Nature & day trips. Miami leads by 23 points.23
MiamiTirana
Score7249
Protected land share 50 km %1611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %4883
Park area within 2 km50 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 8 points.8
MiamiTirana
Score4452
Tourist attractions within 2 km1421
Park area within 2 km50 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 11 points.11
MiamiTirana
Score4253
Notable places within 2 km4583
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 41 points.41
MiamiTirana
Score4384
Price level global10042.6
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. Miami leads by 7 points.7
MiamiTirana
Score7467
Monthly daytime high24.7 °C to 32.7 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 267 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
Miami
25
26
27
29
31
32
33
33
32
30
28
26
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Miami
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Miami
47
55
63
85
157
267
186
242
259
193
90
62
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Miami
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Miami
No sunshine record
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. Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMiamiTirana
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
10 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
3 h 0 m
€202-362
MIA · 7 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
13 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
2 h 35 m
€109-148
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 7 km
3 h 5 m
€66-111
TIA · 13 km
MadridMAD
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 7 km
3 h 0 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

MeasureMiamiTirana
Official languageAlbanian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Lek (ALL)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation2 m110 m
Main airportMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre199 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureMiamiTirana
City population442,241389,323
People per km²3,0469,314
Museums within 10 km1711
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3946
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. 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.