VacationSelector

Tirana or West Palm Beach?

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

Your match

Tirana
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on sights concentration and value for money with your weighting.

West Palm Beach
42
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

TiranaWest Palm Beach
Beaches & swimming. West Palm Beach leads by 71 points.71
TiranaWest Palm Beach
Score1788
Swim season months512
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance26 km0 km
Water distance26 km0 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 18 points.18
TiranaWest Palm Beach
Score5537
Restaurants within 2 km of centre572262
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2214
Museums & heritage. Tirana leads by 8 points.8
TiranaWest Palm Beach
Score2517
Museums within 10 km125
Museums within 2 km of centre83
Share of museums within 2 km %6760
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 38 points.38
TiranaWest Palm Beach
Score5820
Drinking venues within 4 km945132
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre68390
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7268
Nightclubs within 4 km2910
Nature & day trips. West Palm Beach leads by 20 points.20
TiranaWest Palm Beach
Score4969
Protected land share 50 km %1115
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %8345
Park area within 2 km147 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 31 points.31
TiranaWest Palm Beach
Score5221
Tourist attractions within 2 km213
Park area within 2 km147 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 41 points.41
TiranaWest Palm Beach
Score5312
Notable places within 2 km838
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 41 points.41
TiranaWest Palm Beach
Score8443
Price level global42.6100
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. West Palm Beach leads by 8 points.8
TiranaWest Palm Beach
Score6775
Monthly daytime high11.6 °C to 30.7 °C24 °C to 32.5 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 172 mm67 mm to 217 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
West Palm Beach
24
25
26
28
30
32
32
33
31
30
27
25
Sea temperature, °C
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
West Palm Beach
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
West Palm Beach
86
67
84
92
126
214
145
217
199
147
88
78
Daylight, hours per day
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
West Palm Beach
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Tirana
4
4
5
6
9
10
12
11
9
7
4
3
West Palm Beach
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre). West Palm Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Palm Beach International (5.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTiranaWest Palm Beach
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
MadridMAD
3 h 0 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
DJT · 6 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 50 m
€33-74
TIA · 13 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 55 m
€62-138
TIA · 13 km
9 h 0 m
€550-628
1 stop
MIA · 105 km
Tel Aviv YafoTLV
2 h 40 m
€222-261
TIA · 13 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
€100-109
TIA · 13 km
11 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 35 m
€109-148
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
9 h 55 m
no fares
MIA · 105 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
3 h 5 m
€66-111
TIA · 13 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
MIA · 105 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

MeasureTiranaWest Palm Beach
Official languageAlbanian
CurrencyLek (ALL)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number112911
Elevation110 m6 m
Main airportTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsPresident Donald J. Trump International Airport (DJT)6 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureTiranaWest Palm Beach
City population389,323117,415
People per km²9,314786
Museums within 10 km114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre4618
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.

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.