VacationSelector

Tirana or Toronto?

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

Your match

Tirana
51
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Toronto
✓ Best match
54
match

Wins on places to eat and beaches & swimming 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.

TiranaToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 26 points.26
TiranaToronto
Score1743
Swim season months51
Beaches 10 km058
Coast distance26 km533 km
Water distance26 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 27 points.27
TiranaToronto
Score5582
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5722,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2239
Museums & heritage. Toronto leads by 18 points.18
TiranaToronto
Score2543
Museums within 10 km1235
Museums within 2 km of centre825
Share of museums within 2 km %6771
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 11 points.11
TiranaToronto
Score5869
Drinking venues within 4 km9451,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre683966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7264
Nightclubs within 4 km29103
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 23 points.23
TiranaToronto
Score4926
Protected land share 50 km %112
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %83100
Park area within 2 km147 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Toronto leads by 5 points.5
TiranaToronto
Score5257
Tourist attractions within 2 km2123
Park area within 2 km147 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km04
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 8 points.8
TiranaToronto
Score5361
Notable places within 2 km83128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 30 points.30
TiranaToronto
Score8454
Price level global42.684
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 12 points.12
TiranaToronto
Score6755
Monthly daytime high11.6 °C to 30.7 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 172 mm51 mm to 85 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
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Tirana
4
4
5
6
9
10
12
11
9
7
4
3
Toronto
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTiranaToronto
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
7 h 45 m
€477
YYZ · 20 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
7 h 25 m
€443-479
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
€94-143
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
8 h 10 m
€510-561
YYZ · 20 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
7 h 45 m
€533-534
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
€30-52
TIA · 13 km
9 h 0 m
€507-623
1 stop
YYZ · 20 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
AthensATH
1 h 15 m
€73-127
TIA · 13 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
PraguePRG
1 h 55 m
€90-115
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 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

MeasureTiranaToronto
Official languageAlbanianFrench, English
CurrencyLek (ALL)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation110 m76 m
Main airportTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureTiranaToronto
City population389,3232,794,356
People per km²9,3144,434
Museums within 10 km1132
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre46102
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months1 month

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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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.