VacationSelector

Paris or Tirana?

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

Your match

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Tirana
51
match

Wins on value for money and beaches & swimming 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.

ParisTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
ParisTirana
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km20
Coast distance149 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 35 points.35
ParisTirana
Score9055
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,732572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3322
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 51 points.51
ParisTirana
Score7625
Museums within 10 km18512
Museums within 2 km of centre658
Share of museums within 2 km %3567
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Paris leads by 30 points.30
ParisTirana
Score8858
Drinking venues within 4 km3,796945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,694683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4572
Nightclubs within 4 km20129
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 1 points.1
ParisTirana
Score4849
Protected land share 50 km %2811
Landscape blanket share 50 km %263
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km82 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 23 points.23
ParisTirana
Score7552
Tourist attractions within 2 km8921
Park area within 2 km82 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 41 points.41
ParisTirana
Score9453
Notable places within 2 km86583
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 22 points.22
ParisTirana
Score6284
Price level global73.742.6
Daily budget€160€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 1 points.1
ParisTirana
Score6667
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months10
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Paris
No coastline within reach
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Paris
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. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromParisTirana
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€152-378
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
AthensATH
3 h 10 m
€177-208
CDG · 22 km
1 h 15 m
€73-127
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 15 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
4 h 30 m
€216-403
CDG · 22 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€110-135
CDG · 22 km
2 h 25 m
€74-123
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 50 m
€150-199
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
2 h 35 m
€109-148
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€118-132
ORY · 14 km
1 h 25 m
€30-52
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 45 m
€445-510
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
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

MeasureParisTirana
Official languageFrenchAlbanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation27 m110 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisTirana
City population2,103,778389,323
People per km²19,9609,314
Museums within 10 km25111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre16946
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.