VacationSelector

Tirana or Valletta?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Valletta
✓ Best match
60
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.

TiranaValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 60 points.60
TiranaValletta
Score1777
Swim season months56
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance26 km0 km
Water distance26 km0 km
Places to eat. Valletta leads by 3 points.3
TiranaValletta
Score5558
Restaurants within 2 km of centre572416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2235
Museums & heritage. Valletta leads by 36 points.36
TiranaValletta
Score2561
Museums within 10 km1246
Museums within 2 km of centre829
Share of museums within 2 km %6763
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 11 points.11
TiranaValletta
Score5847
Drinking venues within 4 km945522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre683250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7248
Nightclubs within 4 km2927
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 3 points.3
TiranaValletta
Score4946
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %836
Park area within 2 km147 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 6 points.6
TiranaValletta
Score5246
Tourist attractions within 2 km2132
Park area within 2 km147 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 8 points.8
TiranaValletta
Score5361
Notable places within 2 km83133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 15 points.15
TiranaValletta
Score8469
Price level global42.662.8
Daily budget€76€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 12 points.12
TiranaValletta
Score6779
Monthly daytime high11.6 °C to 30.7 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 172 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months06
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
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Valletta
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Tirana
4
4
5
6
9
10
12
11
9
7
4
3
Valletta
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
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). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTiranaValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
€30-52
TIA · 13 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
2 h 5 m
€62-92
MLA · 6 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
2 h 55 m
€78-100
MLA · 6 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 20 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
55 m
€42-83
MLA · 6 km
KatowiceKTW
1 h 50 m
€73-87
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
2 h 40 m
€105-122
MLA · 6 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 30 m
€97-142
TIA · 13 km
2 h 50 m
€83-115
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
AthensATH
1 h 15 m
€73-127
TIA · 13 km
1 h 40 m
€66-166
MLA · 6 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
MLA · 6 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

MeasureTiranaValletta
Official languageAlbanianEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyLek (ALL)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation110 m56 m
Main airportTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureTiranaValletta
City population389,3236,444
People per km²9,3148,055
Museums within 10 km1115
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre4655
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months6 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.