VacationSelector

Sydney or Tirana?

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

Your match

Sydney
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

SydneyTirana
Beaches & swimming. Sydney leads by 43 points.43
SydneyTirana
Score6017
Swim season months65
Beaches 10 km1600
Coast distance7 km26 km
Water distance7 km26 km
Places to eat. Sydney leads by 23 points.23
SydneyTirana
Score7855
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,205572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3122
Museums & heritage. Sydney leads by 26 points.26
SydneyTirana
Score5125
Museums within 10 km4412
Museums within 2 km of centre208
Share of museums within 2 km %4567
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Sydney leads by 17 points.17
SydneyTirana
Score7558
Drinking venues within 4 km2,050945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,405683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6972
Nightclubs within 4 km12029
Nature & day trips. Sydney leads by 9 points.9
SydneyTirana
Score5849
Protected land share 50 km %1011
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %5283
Park area within 2 km115 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Sydney leads by 12 points.12
SydneyTirana
Score6452
Tourist attractions within 2 km3721
Park area within 2 km115 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Sydney leads by 7 points.7
SydneyTirana
Score6053
Notable places within 2 km12383
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 34 points.34
SydneyTirana
Score5084
Price level global90.242.6
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. Sydney leads by 14 points.14
SydneyTirana
Score8167
Monthly daytime high17.7 °C to 27.7 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 121 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
Sydney
28
27
26
23
21
18
18
19
22
24
25
26
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Sydney
23
23
23
22
21
20
19
18
18
19
20
21
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Sydney
80
116
90
95
89
121
70
63
57
55
71
68
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Sydney
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Sydney
8
6
7
7
7
6
7
8
8
8
7
8
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. Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSydneyTirana
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
20 h 40 m
€931-1073
1 stop
SYD · 9 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
20 h 35 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
18 h 15 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
19 h 55 m
no fares
SYD · 9 km
1 h 25 m
€30-52
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
19 h 0 m
no fares
SYD · 9 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

MeasureSydneyTirana
Official languageEnglishAlbanian
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Lek (ALL)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number000112
Elevation6 m110 m
Main airportSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSydneyTirana
City population5,450,496389,323
People per km²4499,314
Museums within 10 km3811
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre7946
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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). 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.