VacationSelector

Tirana or Valencia?

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 good for families with your weighting.

Valencia
✓ Best match
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

TiranaValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 50 points.50
TiranaValencia
Score1767
Swim season months55
Beaches 10 km012
Coast distance26 km3 km
Water distance26 km3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 23 points.23
TiranaValencia
Score5578
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5721,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2233
Museums & heritage. Valencia leads by 30 points.30
TiranaValencia
Score2555
Museums within 10 km1259
Museums within 2 km of centre826
Share of museums within 2 km %6744
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 12 points.12
TiranaValencia
Score5870
Drinking venues within 4 km9451,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre683957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7263
Nightclubs within 4 km29108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 4 points.4
TiranaValencia
Score4953
Protected land share 50 km %1110
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %8364
Park area within 2 km147 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 10 points.10
TiranaValencia
Score5242
Tourist attractions within 2 km2112
Park area within 2 km147 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 1 points.1
TiranaValencia
Score5352
Notable places within 2 km8378
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 13 points.13
TiranaValencia
Score8471
Price level global42.660.8
Daily budget€76€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 17 points.17
TiranaValencia
Score6784
Monthly daytime high11.6 °C to 30.7 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 172 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months08
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Tirana
4
4
5
6
9
10
12
11
9
7
4
3
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTiranaValencia
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
PalmaPMI
2 h 20 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
1 h 0 m
€32-53
VLC · 9 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
1 h 50 m
€51-87
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
€30-52
TIA · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 30 m
€97-142
TIA · 13 km
2 h 15 m
€110-139
VLC · 9 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
3 h 15 m
€91-113
VLC · 9 km
KatowiceKTW
1 h 50 m
€73-87
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
ALC · 133 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 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

MeasureTiranaValencia
Official languageAlbanianSpanish
CurrencyLek (ALL)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation110 m15 m
Main airportTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureTiranaValencia
City population389,323840,792
People per km²9,3146,242
Museums within 10 km1146
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre4692
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.