VacationSelector

Palermo or Tirana?

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

Your match

Palermo
✓ Best match
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

PalermoTirana
Beaches & swimming. Palermo leads by 50 points.50
PalermoTirana
Score6717
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km130
Coast distance1 km26 km
Water distance1 km26 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 5 points.5
PalermoTirana
Score5055
Restaurants within 2 km of centre807572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1322
Museums & heritage. Palermo leads by 25 points.25
PalermoTirana
Score5025
Museums within 10 km3212
Museums within 2 km of centre268
Share of museums within 2 km %8167
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 5 points.5
PalermoTirana
Score5358
Drinking venues within 4 km799945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre515683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6472
Nightclubs within 4 km1629
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 13 points.13
PalermoTirana
Score3649
Protected land share 50 km %411
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %4583
Park area within 2 km63 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 11 points.11
PalermoTirana
Score4152
Tourist attractions within 2 km1621
Park area within 2 km63 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Palermo leads by 4 points.4
PalermoTirana
Score5753
Notable places within 2 km10483
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 16 points.16
PalermoTirana
Score6884
Price level global64.942.6
Daily budget€155€76
Year-round weather. Palermo leads by 10 points.10
PalermoTirana
Score7767
Monthly daytime high12.6 °C to 27.8 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall4 mm to 71 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months70
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
Palermo
13
13
14
16
20
24
28
28
25
21
17
14
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Palermo
15
14
15
16
19
22
26
27
25
23
20
17
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Palermo
48
45
35
35
18
9
4
11
37
67
71
69
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Palermo
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Palermo
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
10
8
7
5
4
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. Palermo: 1961-1990 normals, Ustica (66.8 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPalermoTirana
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 45 m
€31-110
PMO · 25 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€40-52
PMO · 25 km
1 h 25 m
€30-52
TIA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 25 m
€101-135
PMO · 25 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
NaplesNAP
1 h 0 m
€42-84
PMO · 25 km
1 h 10 m
€44-72
TIA · 13 km
BolognaBLQ
1 h 30 m
€28-65
PMO · 25 km
1 h 35 m
€27-40
TIA · 13 km
PisaPSA
1 h 25 m
€47-105
PMO · 25 km
1 h 35 m
€26-125
TIA · 13 km
KatowiceKTW
2 h 25 m
no fares
TPS · 80 km
1 h 50 m
€73-87
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 40 m
no fares
PMO · 25 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 10 m
€151-346
1 stop
PMO · 25 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
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

MeasurePalermoTirana
Official languageItalianAlbanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation14 m110 m
Main airportFalcone–Borsellino Airport (PMO)25 km from centre103 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePalermoTirana
City population630,167389,323
People per km²3,9249,314
Museums within 10 km4211
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre3346
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.