VacationSelector

Paphos or Tirana?

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

Your match

Paphos
46
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Tirana
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on sights concentration and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

PaphosTirana
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 62 points.62
PaphosTirana
Score7917
Swim season months65
Beaches 10 km270
Coast distance1 km26 km
Water distance1 km26 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 11 points.11
PaphosTirana
Score4455
Restaurants within 2 km of centre251572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2222
Museums & heritage. Tirana leads by 3 points.3
PaphosTirana
Score2225
Museums within 10 km812
Museums within 2 km of centre38
Share of museums within 2 km %3867
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 28 points.28
PaphosTirana
Score3058
Drinking venues within 4 km224945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7272
Nightclubs within 4 km1129
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 26 points.26
PaphosTirana
Score2349
Protected land share 50 km %211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %3383
Park area within 2 km27 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 10 points.10
PaphosTirana
Score4252
Tourist attractions within 2 km3021
Park area within 2 km27 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 34 points.34
PaphosTirana
Score1953
Notable places within 2 km1283
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 14 points.14
PaphosTirana
Score7084
Price level global61.442.6
Daily budget€129€76
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 19 points.19
PaphosTirana
Score8667
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months80
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
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Paphos
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. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPaphosTirana
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
1 h 5 m
€149-173
PFO · 8 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
3 h 10 m
€123-135
PFO · 8 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
KatowiceKTW
3 h 5 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
1 h 50 m
€73-87
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AthensATH
1 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
1 h 15 m
€73-127
TIA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
4 h 5 m
€197-331
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
PoznanPOZ
3 h 25 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
2 h 10 m
€88-118
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
WroclawWRO
3 h 15 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
2 h 0 m
€85-125
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AlmatyALA
5 h 10 m
€377-465
2 stops
LCA · 110 km
6 h 5 m
€370-455
3 stops
TGD · 124 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 2026-09, 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

MeasurePaphosTirana
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekAlbanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Lek (ALL)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation72 m110 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosTirana
City population35,961389,323
People per km²1,9879,314
Museums within 10 km411
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3646
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.