VacationSelector

Oslo or Tirana?

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

Your match

Oslo
✓ Best match
56
match

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

Tirana
51
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

OsloTirana
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 43 points.43
OsloTirana
Score6017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km1630
Coast distance1 km26 km
Water distance1 km26 km
Places to eat. Oslo leads by 12 points.12
OsloTirana
Score6755
Restaurants within 2 km of centre853572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3422
Museums & heritage. Oslo leads by 23 points.23
OsloTirana
Score4825
Museums within 10 km7012
Museums within 2 km of centre378
Share of museums within 2 km %5367
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 5 points.5
OsloTirana
Score5358
Drinking venues within 4 km695945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre562683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8172
Nightclubs within 4 km4129
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 12 points.12
OsloTirana
Score6149
Protected land share 50 km %2211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %13
Land share of disc %9483
Park area within 2 km88 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 4 points.4
OsloTirana
Score4852
Tourist attractions within 2 km1321
Park area within 2 km88 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 16 points.16
OsloTirana
Score6953
Notable places within 2 km20783
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 30 points.30
OsloTirana
Score5484
Price level global85.142.6
Daily budget€203€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 19 points.19
OsloTirana
Score4867
Monthly daytime high0.1 °C to 22.7 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall40 mm to 104 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
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1
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. Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromOsloTirana
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 15 m
€92-109
OSL · 37 km
2 h 35 m
€109-148
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 5 m
€83-98
OSL · 37 km
3 h 5 m
€66-111
TIA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 55 m
€51-85
OSL · 37 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 30 m
€213-241
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
KatowiceKTW
2 h 5 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
1 h 50 m
€73-87
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
2 h 10 m
€94-143
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 35 m
€78-91
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
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

MeasureOsloTirana
Official languageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, SámiAlbanian
CurrencyNorwegian Krone (NOK)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 112, ambulance 113, fire 110112
Elevation23 m110 m
Main airportOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureOsloTirana
City population717,710389,323
People per km²9,314
Museums within 10 km6011
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7546
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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). 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. 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.