VacationSelector

Tallinn or Tirana?

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

Your match

Tallinn
✓ Best match
54
match

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

Tirana
51
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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.

TallinnTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tallinn leads by 37 points.37
TallinnTirana
Score5417
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km180
Coast distance0 km26 km
Water distance0 km26 km
Places to eat. Tallinn leads by 7 points.7
TallinnTirana
Score6255
Restaurants within 2 km of centre481572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3922
Museums & heritage. Tallinn leads by 37 points.37
TallinnTirana
Score6225
Museums within 10 km7112
Museums within 2 km of centre578
Share of museums within 2 km %8067
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 12 points.12
TallinnTirana
Score4658
Drinking venues within 4 km462945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre370683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8072
Nightclubs within 4 km4329
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 18 points.18
TallinnTirana
Score3149
Protected land share 50 km %211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %5383
Park area within 2 km89 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 1 points.1
TallinnTirana
Score5152
Tourist attractions within 2 km2021
Park area within 2 km89 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Tallinn leads by 9 points.9
TallinnTirana
Score6253
Notable places within 2 km13583
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 14 points.14
TallinnTirana
Score7084
Price level global62.442.6
Daily budget€143€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 19 points.19
TallinnTirana
Score4867
Monthly daytime high-1.2 °C to 22.3 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 83 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months40
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
Tallinn
-1
-1
3
10
15
19
22
21
16
10
4
1
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Tallinn
2
1
1
2
6
12
16
17
15
11
7
5
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Tallinn
56
40
38
34
38
66
82
80
57
83
64
57
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Tallinn
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Tallinn
1
2
5
7
10
10
10
8
5
3
1
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. Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromTallinnTirana
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 10 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
3 h 5 m
€66-111
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 25 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€94-143
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 40 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
1 h 55 m
€150-169
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 50 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
RigaRIX
1 h 0 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
HelsinkiHEL
45 m
no fares
TLL · 6 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
8 h 25 m
no fares
HEL · 99 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

MeasureTallinnTirana
Official languageEstonianAlbanian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Lek (ALL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation28 m110 m
Main airportLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre64 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureTallinnTirana
City population457,572389,323
People per km²2,8719,314
Museums within 10 km1511
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre6346
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone5 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.