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The arch at the entrance to the boardwalk, Ocean City, Maryland
Ocean City, MarylandThe arch at the entrance to the boardwalk
The Great Mosque with the mountains behind, Tirana
TiranaThe Great Mosque with the mountains behind

Photos: Ocean City, Maryland by Dough4872, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Tirana by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Ocean City, Maryland or Tirana?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Ocean City, Maryland for

  • families
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Ocean City, Maryland’s own page.

Choose Tirana for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Tirana’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Ocean City, Maryland 78, Tirana 46: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Ocean City, Maryland 40, Tirana 57: Tirana leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Ocean City, Maryland 14, Tirana 42: Tirana leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Ocean City, Maryland 45, Tirana 58: Tirana leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Ocean City, Maryland 50, Tirana 62: Tirana leads by 12 points.
Day trips. Ocean City, Maryland 42, Tirana 64: Tirana leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Ocean City, Maryland 78, Tirana 40: Ocean City, Maryland leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Ocean City, Maryland 34, Tirana 54: Tirana leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Ocean City, Maryland 24, Tirana 32: Tirana leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Ocean City, Maryland 40, Tirana 76: Tirana leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Ocean City, Maryland 18, Tirana 32: Tirana leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Ocean City, Maryland 22, Tirana 27: Tirana leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Ocean City, Maryland and Tirana.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Ocean City, Maryland
40match

Wins on families and beaches with your weighting.

Tirana
Best match
49match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Ocean City, Maryland in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Tirana in July

31 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
43 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Ocean City, Maryland has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Ocean City, Maryland: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Ocean City / Morris Mobile Home Park (10.2 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureOcean City, MarylandTirana
Official language-Albanian
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 airportSalisbury Ocean City Wicomico Regional Airport (SBY)39 km from centre4 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureOcean City, MarylandTirana
City population6,844389,323
People per km²739,314
Museums within 10 km011
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.