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The Great Mosque with the mountains behind, Tirana
TiranaThe Great Mosque with the mountains behind
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Tirana by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Tirana or Valparaiso?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Tirana for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Tirana’s own page.

Choose Valparaiso for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Tirana 46, Valparaiso 36: Tirana leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Tirana 57, Valparaiso 50: Tirana leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Tirana 42, Valparaiso 62: Valparaiso leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Tirana 58, Valparaiso 56: Tirana leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Tirana 62, Valparaiso 60: Tirana leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Tirana 64, Valparaiso 63: Tirana leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Tirana 40, Valparaiso 33: Tirana leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Tirana 54, Valparaiso 44: Tirana leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Tirana 32, Valparaiso 30: Tirana leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Tirana 76, Valparaiso 60: Tirana leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Tirana 32, Valparaiso 38: Valparaiso leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Tirana 27, Valparaiso 18: Tirana leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Tirana and Valparaiso.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Tirana
Best match
49match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Tirana in July

31 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
43 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Valparaiso has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTiranaValparaiso
Official languageAlbanianSpanish
CurrencyLek (ALL)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation110 m21 m
Main airportTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre121 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureTiranaValparaiso
City population389,323296,655
People per km²9,3146,180
Museums within 10 km1117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 monthsNone

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.