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Rome or Tirana?

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

Your match

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

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

Tirana
51
match

Wins on 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.

RomeTirana
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 16 points.16
RomeTirana
Score3317
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance24 km26 km
Water distance24 km26 km
Places to eat. Rome leads by 5 points.5
RomeTirana
Score6055
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,241572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1022
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 59 points.59
RomeTirana
Score8425
Museums within 10 km16112
Museums within 2 km of centre798
Share of museums within 2 km %4967
Unesco sites within 50 km70
Nightlife. Rome leads by 16 points.16
RomeTirana
Score7458
Drinking venues within 4 km2,022945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre912683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4572
Nightclubs within 4 km8529
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 21 points.21
RomeTirana
Score7049
Protected land share 50 km %1911
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %7883
Park area within 2 km172 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 34 points.34
RomeTirana
Score8652
Tourist attractions within 2 km12621
Park area within 2 km172 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 46 points.46
RomeTirana
Score9953
Notable places within 2 km1,12583
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 16 points.16
RomeTirana
Score6884
Price level global64.942.6
Daily budget€155€76
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 4 points.4
RomeTirana
Score7167
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 31.4 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 114 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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4
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. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRomeTirana
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 20 m
€60-112
FCO · 23 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
2 h 25 m
€74-123
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 15 m
€84-118
FCO · 23 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 15 m
€59-123
FCO · 23 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
AthensATH
1 h 55 m
€96-116
FCO · 23 km
1 h 15 m
€73-127
TIA · 13 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
3 h 20 m
€115-179
FCO · 23 km
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 0 m
€487-550
1 stop
FCO · 23 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

MeasureRomeTirana
Official languageItalianAlbanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation21 m110 m
Main airportRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureRomeTirana
City population2,748,109389,323
People per km²2,1359,314
Museums within 10 km17711
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km70
Distinct cuisines in the centre6546
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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). 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. 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.