VacationSelector

Prague or Tirana?

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

Your match

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Tirana
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money 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.

PragueTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
PragueTirana
Score017
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km70
Coast distance10,000 km26 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Prague leads by 20 points.20
PragueTirana
Score7555
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,866572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2922
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 47 points.47
PragueTirana
Score7225
Museums within 10 km13812
Museums within 2 km of centre1008
Share of museums within 2 km %7267
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Prague leads by 19 points.19
PragueTirana
Score7758
Drinking venues within 4 km2,248945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,457683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6572
Nightclubs within 4 km12329
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 4 points.4
PragueTirana
Score4549
Protected land share 50 km %1211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %83
Land share of disc %10083
Park area within 2 km183 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 23 points.23
PragueTirana
Score7552
Tourist attractions within 2 km5421
Park area within 2 km183 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 23 points.23
PragueTirana
Score7653
Notable places within 2 km31083
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 9 points.9
PragueTirana
Score7584
Price level global55.242.6
Daily budget€107€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 6 points.6
PragueTirana
Score6167
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 25.3 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 80 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
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Prague
No coastline within reach
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPragueTirana
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 45 m
€220-244
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 0 m
€179-197
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
1 h 55 m
€150-169
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AthensATH
2 h 30 m
€132-140
PRG · 12 km
1 h 15 m
€73-127
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 15 m
€138-160
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 12 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 12 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 25 m
€66-91
PRG · 12 km
2 h 35 m
€109-148
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 30 m
no fares
PRG · 12 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

MeasurePragueTirana
Official languageCzechAlbanian
CurrencyCzech Koruna (CZK)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
Elevation235 m110 m
Main airportVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasurePragueTirana
City population1,397,880389,323
People per km²2,8179,314
Museums within 10 km8811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8946
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). 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. 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.