VacationSelector

Tirana or Vilnius?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Tirana
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Vilnius
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration 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.

TiranaVilnius
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
TiranaVilnius
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km016
Coast distance26 km260 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Vilnius leads by 5 points.5
TiranaVilnius
Score5560
Restaurants within 2 km of centre572537
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2232
Museums & heritage. Vilnius leads by 46 points.46
TiranaVilnius
Score2571
Museums within 10 km1274
Museums within 2 km of centre854
Share of museums within 2 km %6773
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 12 points.12
TiranaVilnius
Score5846
Drinking venues within 4 km945464
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre683388
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7284
Nightclubs within 4 km2939
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 8 points.8
TiranaVilnius
Score4941
Protected land share 50 km %1110
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %83100
Park area within 2 km147 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 1 points.1
TiranaVilnius
Score5251
Tourist attractions within 2 km2127
Park area within 2 km147 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Vilnius leads by 12 points.12
TiranaVilnius
Score5365
Notable places within 2 km83161
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 8 points.8
TiranaVilnius
Score8476
Price level global42.653.1
Daily budget€76€125
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 14 points.14
TiranaVilnius
Score6753
Monthly daytime high11.6 °C to 30.7 °C-1.5 °C to 24 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 172 mm41 mm to 90 mm
Dry months00
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
Vilnius
-1
0
4
13
19
22
24
23
18
10
4
0
Sea temperature, °C
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
Vilnius
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
Vilnius
48
42
41
41
60
66
90
78
58
58
45
49
Daylight, hours per day
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Vilnius
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Tirana
4
4
5
6
9
10
12
11
9
7
4
3
Vilnius
1
2
5
7
8
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre). Vilnius: 1991-2020 normals, Vilnius (13 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTiranaVilnius
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 55 m
€150-169
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
€94-143
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
RigaRIX
2 h 45 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
1 h 0 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 35 m
€109-148
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
VNO · 6 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
VNO · 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

MeasureTiranaVilnius
Official languageAlbanianLithuanian
CurrencyLek (ALL)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation110 m98 m
Main airportTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsVilnius International Airport (VNO)6 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureTiranaVilnius
City population389,323581,475
People per km²9,3141,450
Museums within 10 km1130
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre4654
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.