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The Great Mosque with the mountains behind, Tirana
TiranaThe Great Mosque with the mountains behind
The Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal, Venice
VeniceThe Rialto Bridge on the Grand Canal

Photos: Tirana by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Venice by David Vives, Pexels License.

Tirana or Venice?

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
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Venice for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Venice’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, Venice 56: Venice leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Tirana 57, Venice 60: Venice leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Tirana 42, Venice 94: Venice leads by 52 points.
Nightlife. Tirana 58, Venice 27: Tirana leads by 31 points.
Nature & outdoors. Tirana 62, Venice 45: Tirana leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Tirana 64, Venice 86: Venice leads by 22 points.
Good for families. Tirana 40, Venice 45: Venice leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Tirana 54, Venice 68: Venice leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Tirana 32, Venice 57: Venice leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Tirana 76, Venice 20: Tirana leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Tirana 32, Venice 62: Venice leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Tirana 27, Venice 40: Venice leads by 13 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Tirana and Venice.

Your match

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

Tirana
49match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Venice
Best match
55match

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

Venice in July

29 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
61 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Venice 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.

Venice's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Treviso / S. Angelo.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Venezia / Tessera (6.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureTiranaVenice
Official languageAlbanianItalian
CurrencyLek (ALL)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation110 m2 m
Main airportTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre121 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureTiranaVenice
City population389,323250,369
People per km²9,314602
Museums within 10 km1152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 months

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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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.