VacationSelector

Tirana or York?

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 value for money and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on 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.

TiranaYork
Beaches & swimming. Tirana leads by 17 points.17
TiranaYork
Score170
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance26 km50 km
Water distance26 km
Places to eat. Tirana leads by 1 points.1
TiranaYork
Score5554
Restaurants within 2 km of centre572361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2231
Museums & heritage. York leads by 21 points.21
TiranaYork
Score2546
Museums within 10 km1218
Museums within 2 km of centre816
Share of museums within 2 km %6789
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Tirana leads by 15 points.15
TiranaYork
Score5843
Drinking venues within 4 km945450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre683353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7278
Nightclubs within 4 km2914
Nature & day trips. Tirana leads by 16 points.16
TiranaYork
Score4933
Protected land share 50 km %1117
Landscape blanket share 50 km %316
Land share of disc %8395
Park area within 2 km147 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Tirana leads by 9 points.9
TiranaYork
Score5243
Tourist attractions within 2 km2113
Park area within 2 km147 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Tirana leads by 14 points.14
TiranaYork
Score5339
Notable places within 2 km8337
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Tirana leads by 30 points.30
TiranaYork
Score8454
Price level global42.684.9
Daily budget€76
Year-round weather. Tirana leads by 11 points.11
TiranaYork
Score6756
Monthly daytime high11.6 °C to 30.7 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall43 mm to 172 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months01
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
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Tirana
15
14
14
16
19
23
24
25
24
21
19
16
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Tirana
143
117
116
103
84
66
43
55
78
114
172
148
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Tirana
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Tirana
4
4
5
6
9
10
12
11
9
7
4
3
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromTiranaYork
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 5 m
€68-80
TIA · 13 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€73-102
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
KatowiceKTW
1 h 50 m
€73-87
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 55 m
€150-169
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€74-123
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MalagaAGP
3 h 10 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
PoznanPOZ
2 h 10 m
€88-118
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
PraguePRG
1 h 55 m
€90-115
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
CologneCGN
2 h 20 m
€143-203
1 stop
TIA · 13 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
9 h 35 m
no fares
TIA · 13 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureTiranaYork
Official languageAlbanianEnglish
CurrencyLek (ALL)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation110 m25 m
Main airportTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureTiranaYork
City population389,323208,400
People per km²9,314766
Museums within 10 km1124
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
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. 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.