VacationSelector

Tirana or Tromso?

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

Your match

Tirana
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on nightlife and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Tromso
27
match

Wins on beaches & swimming with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

TiranaTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 35 points.35
TiranaTromso
Score1752
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km014
Coast distance26 km0 km
Water distance26 km0 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 31 points.31
TiranaTromso
Score5524
Restaurants within 2 km of centre57285
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2216
Museums & heritage. Tirana leads by 2 points.2
TiranaTromso
Score2523
Museums within 10 km1210
Museums within 2 km of centre88
Share of museums within 2 km %6780
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 51 points.51
TiranaTromso
Score587
Drinking venues within 4 km94567
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre68361
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7291
Nightclubs within 4 km295
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 38 points.38
TiranaTromso
Score4911
Protected land share 50 km %119
Landscape blanket share 50 km %39
Land share of disc %8365
Park area within 2 km147 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 38 points.38
TiranaTromso
Score5214
Tourist attractions within 2 km219
Park area within 2 km147 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 25 points.25
TiranaTromso
Score5328
Notable places within 2 km8320
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 30 points.30
TiranaTromso
Score8454
Price level global42.685.1
Daily budget€76€203
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 34 points.34
TiranaTromso
Score6733
Monthly daytime high11.6 °C to 30.7 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 172 mm56 mm to 128 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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D
Daytime high, °C
Tirana
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Tirana
4
4
5
6
9
10
12
11
9
7
4
3
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTiranaTromso
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 35 m
€109-148
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
GdanskGDN
2 h 20 m
€95-224
TIA · 13 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
HelsinkiHEL
3 h 10 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 5 m
€66-111
TIA · 13 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
€94-143
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 0 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
3 h 40 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BerlinBER
2 h 10 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
3 h 55 m
no fares
TOS · 4 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 2026-09 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

MeasureTiranaTromso
Official languageAlbanianNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyLek (ALL)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation110 m20 m
Main airportTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureTiranaTromso
City population389,32379,943
People per km²9,31432
Museums within 10 km118
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre4623
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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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.