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The Great Mosque with the mountains behind, Tirana
TiranaThe Great Mosque with the mountains behind
The Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta, Yogyakarta
YogyakartaThe Tugu monument in the centre of Yogyakarta

Photos: Tirana by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Yogyakarta by CEphoto, Uwe Aranas, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Tirana or Yogyakarta?

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

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • getting around

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

Choose Yogyakarta for

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

What lies behind each score is written up on Yogyakarta’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, Yogyakarta 22: Tirana leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Tirana 57, Yogyakarta 62: Yogyakarta leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Tirana 42, Yogyakarta 68: Yogyakarta leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Tirana 58, Yogyakarta 32: Tirana leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Tirana 62, Yogyakarta 72: Yogyakarta leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Tirana 64, Yogyakarta 78: Yogyakarta leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Tirana and Yogyakarta are level on 40.
Getting around. Tirana 54, Yogyakarta 35: Tirana leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Tirana 32, Yogyakarta 52: Yogyakarta leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Tirana 76, Yogyakarta 92: Yogyakarta leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Tirana 32, Yogyakarta 58: Yogyakarta leads by 26 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Tirana 27, Yogyakarta 50: Yogyakarta leads by 23 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Tirana and Yogyakarta.

Your match

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

Tirana
49match

Wins on nightlife and beaches with your weighting.

Yogyakarta
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

Yogyakarta in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
26 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Yogyakarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre). Yogyakarta: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureTiranaYogyakarta
Official languageAlbanianIndonesian
CurrencyLek (ALL)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+7
Emergency number112112
Elevation110 m113 m
Main airportTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre121 non-stop destinationsYogyakarta International Airport (YIA)39 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureTiranaYogyakarta
City population389,323422,732
People per km²9,31413,007
Museums within 10 km1138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months12 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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.

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.