VacationSelector

Tirana or Venice?

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 nature & day trips and nightlife with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
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.

TiranaVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 52 points.52
TiranaVenice
Score1769
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km020
Coast distance26 km4 km
Water distance26 km4 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 10 points.10
TiranaVenice
Score5545
Restaurants within 2 km of centre572750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2210
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 47 points.47
TiranaVenice
Score2572
Museums within 10 km1257
Museums within 2 km of centre845
Share of museums within 2 km %6779
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 23 points.23
TiranaVenice
Score5835
Drinking venues within 4 km945342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre683306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7289
Nightclubs within 4 km293
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 32 points.32
TiranaVenice
Score4917
Protected land share 50 km %114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %8370
Park area within 2 km147 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 5 points.5
TiranaVenice
Score5257
Tourist attractions within 2 km2172
Park area within 2 km147 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 30 points.30
TiranaVenice
Score5383
Notable places within 2 km83464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 16 points.16
TiranaVenice
Score8468
Price level global42.664.9
Daily budget€76€155
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 1 points.1
TiranaVenice
Score6766
Monthly daytime high11.6 °C to 30.7 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 172 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
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
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Tirana
4
4
5
6
9
10
12
11
9
7
4
3
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTiranaVenice
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€74-123
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 35 m
€169-220
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
1 h 50 m
€56-84
VCE · 7 km
CataniaCTA
1 h 20 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 25 m
€30-52
TIA · 13 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
3 h 40 m
€289-462
1 stop
VRN · 113 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
VCE · 7 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

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 centre129 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre4646
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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.