VacationSelector

Rio de Janeiro or Tirana?

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

Your match

Rio de Janeiro
✓ Best match
69
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Tirana
51
match

Wins on value for money and places to eat 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.

Rio de JaneiroTirana
Beaches & swimming. Rio de Janeiro leads by 83 points.83
Rio de JaneiroTirana
Score10017
Swim season months125
Beaches 10 km610
Coast distance1 km26 km
Water distance1 km26 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 1 points.1
Rio de JaneiroTirana
Score5455
Restaurants within 2 km of centre804572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1622
Museums & heritage. Rio de Janeiro leads by 44 points.44
Rio de JaneiroTirana
Score6925
Museums within 10 km11012
Museums within 2 km of centre518
Share of museums within 2 km %4667
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 1 points.1
Rio de JaneiroTirana
Score5758
Drinking venues within 4 km818945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre509683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6272
Nightclubs within 4 km5029
Nature & day trips. Rio de Janeiro leads by 13 points.13
Rio de JaneiroTirana
Score6249
Protected land share 50 km %2111
Landscape blanket share 50 km %173
Land share of disc %5783
Park area within 2 km113 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Rio de Janeiro leads by 7 points.7
Rio de JaneiroTirana
Score5952
Tourist attractions within 2 km3021
Park area within 2 km113 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Rio de Janeiro leads by 3 points.3
Rio de JaneiroTirana
Score5653
Notable places within 2 km9883
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 3 points.3
Rio de JaneiroTirana
Score8184
Price level global46.142.6
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. Rio de Janeiro leads by 18 points.18
Rio de JaneiroTirana
Score8567
Monthly daytime high24 °C to 28.4 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 232 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
Rio de Janeiro
28
28
28
27
25
24
24
25
25
26
26
27
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Rio de Janeiro
25
25
25
25
24
23
22
21
21
22
23
24
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Rio de Janeiro
208
151
173
101
71
49
45
42
69
108
220
232
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Rio de Janeiro
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Rio de Janeiro
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. Rio de Janeiro: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRio de JaneiroTirana
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
€957-1014
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 35 m
€996-1109
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 25 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
€915-1205
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
2 h 10 m
€94-143
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 55 m
€900-974
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 25 m
€897-908
GIG · 12 km
1 h 25 m
€30-52
TIA · 13 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 40 m
€1,154-1306
GIG · 12 km
5 h 5 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
MadridMAD
10 h 15 m
€910-925
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
LisbonLIS
9 h 45 m
€821-922
GIG · 12 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
PortoOPO
10 h 0 m
€827-915
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
3 h 25 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 2026-09 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

MeasureRio de JaneiroTirana
Official languagePortugueseAlbanian
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCN60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112
Elevation31 m110 m
Main airportRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureRio de JaneiroTirana
City population6,211,223389,323
People per km²4,9309,314
Museums within 10 km7011
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre2746
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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). 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. 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.