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Philadelphia or Tirana?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Philadelphia
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and places to eat 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.

PhiladelphiaTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
PhiladelphiaTirana
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance13 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 22 points.22
PhiladelphiaTirana
Score7755
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,714572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3522
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 35 points.35
PhiladelphiaTirana
Score6025
Museums within 10 km8912
Museums within 2 km of centre488
Share of museums within 2 km %5467
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 1 points.1
PhiladelphiaTirana
Score5958
Drinking venues within 4 km930945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6272
Nightclubs within 4 km4129
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia and Tirana are level on 49.
PhiladelphiaTirana
Score4949
Protected land share 50 km %1411
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %8983
Park area within 2 km75 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 1 points.1
PhiladelphiaTirana
Score5352
Tourist attractions within 2 km1621
Park area within 2 km75 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 1 points.1
PhiladelphiaTirana
Score5453
Notable places within 2 km8883
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 41 points.41
PhiladelphiaTirana
Score4384
Price level global10042.6
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 7 points.7
PhiladelphiaTirana
Score6067
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 112 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Philadelphia
No coastline within reach
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
5
5
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. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPhiladelphiaTirana
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 40 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
8 h 45 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
11 h 25 m
€622-836
1 stop
JFK · 140 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
AthensATH
10 h 10 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 15 m
€73-127
TIA · 13 km
PraguePRG
8 h 35 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
1 h 55 m
€90-115
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 10 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 35 m
€109-148
1 stop
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

MeasurePhiladelphiaTirana
Official languageAlbanian
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
Elevation12 m110 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaTirana
City population1,603,797389,323
People per km²4,3399,314
Museums within 10 km5411
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7546
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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. 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.