VacationSelector

Tampa or Tirana?

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

Your match

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Tirana
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration 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.

TampaTirana
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 58 points.58
TampaTirana
Score7517
Swim season months85
Beaches 10 km100
Coast distance1 km26 km
Water distance1 km26 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 1 points.1
TampaTirana
Score5455
Restaurants within 2 km of centre359572
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3122
Museums & heritage. Tampa leads by 2 points.2
TampaTirana
Score2725
Museums within 10 km1312
Museums within 2 km of centre108
Share of museums within 2 km %7767
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 19 points.19
TampaTirana
Score3958
Drinking venues within 4 km324945
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre227683
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7072
Nightclubs within 4 km2629
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 19 points.19
TampaTirana
Score3049
Protected land share 50 km %611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %03
Land share of disc %7283
Park area within 2 km39 hectares147 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 22 points.22
TampaTirana
Score3052
Tourist attractions within 2 km321
Park area within 2 km39 hectares147 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 32 points.32
TampaTirana
Score2153
Notable places within 2 km1383
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 41 points.41
TampaTirana
Score4384
Price level global10042.6
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. Tampa leads by 8 points.8
TampaTirana
Score7567
Monthly daytime high21.5 °C to 32.6 °C11.6 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall36 mm to 228 mm43 mm to 172 mm
Dry months10
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sea temperature, °C
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Daylight, hours per day
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7
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. Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre). Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTampaTirana
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
9 h 10 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
9 h 0 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
2 h 10 m
€94-143
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
ZurichZRH
9 h 55 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
5 h 5 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

MeasureTampaTirana
Official languageAlbanian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Lek (ALL)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation30 m110 m
Main airportTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureTampaTirana
City population384,959389,323
People per km²8489,314
Museums within 10 km611
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre4746
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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.