VacationSelector

New York or Tirana?

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

Your match

New York
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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.

New YorkTirana
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 47 points.47
New YorkTirana
Score6417
Swim season months35
Beaches 10 km170
Coast distance1 km26 km
Water distance1 km26 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 40 points.40
New YorkTirana
Score9555
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6,032572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3822
Museums & heritage. New York leads by 35 points.35
New YorkTirana
Score6025
Museums within 10 km11912
Museums within 2 km of centre318
Share of museums within 2 km %2667
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. New York leads by 31 points.31
New YorkTirana
Score8958
Drinking venues within 4 km4,159945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre2,015683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4872
Nightclubs within 4 km19229
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 10 points.10
New YorkTirana
Score3949
Protected land share 50 km %411
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %6983
Park area within 2 km134 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 20 points.20
New YorkTirana
Score7252
Tourist attractions within 2 km3721
Park area within 2 km134 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km70
Sights concentration. New York leads by 21 points.21
New YorkTirana
Score7453
Notable places within 2 km26883
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 41 points.41
New YorkTirana
Score4384
Price level global10042.6
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 9 points.9
New YorkTirana
Score5867
Monthly daytime high4.5 °C to 30.1 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
New York
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
New York
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. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromNew YorkTirana
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 30 m
€445-517
JFK · 21 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 10 m
€459-498
JFK · 21 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 15 m
€430-458
JFK · 21 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
8 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 20 m
€206-234
LGA · 13 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 55 m
€439-457
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
2 h 10 m
€94-143
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
1 h 25 m
€30-52
TIA · 13 km
AthensATH
10 h 0 m
€606-724
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
1 h 15 m
€73-127
TIA · 13 km
PraguePRG
8 h 20 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
1 h 55 m
€90-115
1 stop
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

MeasureNew YorkTirana
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
Elevation25 m110 m
Main airportJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureNew YorkTirana
City population8,804,190389,323
People per km²7,2569,314
Museums within 10 km15711
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre13246
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.