VacationSelector

Portland or Tirana?

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

Your match

Portland
42
match

Wins on places to eat and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Tirana
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on value for money and good for families 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.

PortlandTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
PortlandTirana
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km270
Coast distance69 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Portland leads by 19 points.19
PortlandTirana
Score7455
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,011572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4422
Museums & heritage. Portland leads by 10 points.10
PortlandTirana
Score3525
Museums within 10 km2312
Museums within 2 km of centre158
Share of museums within 2 km %6567
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Portland and Tirana are level on 58.
PortlandTirana
Score5858
Drinking venues within 4 km942945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre518683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5572
Nightclubs within 4 km3229
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 14 points.14
PortlandTirana
Score3549
Protected land share 50 km %1311
Landscape blanket share 50 km %33
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km37 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 18 points.18
PortlandTirana
Score3452
Tourist attractions within 2 km821
Park area within 2 km37 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 18 points.18
PortlandTirana
Score3553
Notable places within 2 km2983
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 41 points.41
PortlandTirana
Score4384
Price level global10042.6
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 2 points.2
PortlandTirana
Score6567
Monthly daytime high7.9 °C to 27.7 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 145 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months30
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
Portland
8
11
13
16
20
23
27
28
25
18
12
8
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Portland
No coastline within reach
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Portland
128
94
101
75
65
41
13
14
39
87
138
145
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Portland
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Portland
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. Portland: 1991-2020 normals, Portland International Airport (9.8 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPortlandTirana
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 55 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 30 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
2 h 10 m
€94-143
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 5 m
no fares
PDX · 10 km
2 h 35 m
€169-220
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

MeasurePortlandTirana
Official languageAlbanian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Lek (ALL)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation152 m110 m
Main airportPortland International Airport (PDX)10 km from centre87 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortlandTirana
City population652,503389,323
People per km²1,7369,314
Museums within 10 km1711
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre8246
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.