138 Albania Tourism Statistics for 2026

How many tourists visit Albania each year?

Albania counts foreign visitors at the border, and the count has nearly doubled since 2019. Each crossing is counted, so the figure is entries, not people, and it includes day trips from neighbouring countries.

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Entries into Albania by foreign citizens each year, 2015 to 2025. The count fell sharply in 2020 and has grown fast since.

Period	Value
2015	4.13m
2016	4.74m
2017	5.12m
2018	5.93m
2019	6.41m
2020	2.66m
2021	5.69m
2022	7.54m
2023	10.16m
2024	11.70m
2025	12.47m

• Counting Albanian citizens too, there were 20,996,934 entries at Albania's borders in 2025, of which 8,530,896 were by Albanian citizens, including residents coming home and Albanians who live abroad. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Jan 2026)
• Foreign arrivals rose about 95% between 2019 and 2025, from 6,406,038 entries, on our calculation from the official series. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)
• The pandemic cut foreign arrivals to 2,657,818 in 2020, 58.5% below 2019. They passed the pre-pandemic level again in 2022, with 7,543,817. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)
• In 2010 foreign citizens made 2,417,337 entries, so the 2025 count was more than five times as high. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)
• Most foreign entries were for personal reasons: 11,614,932 were for holidays, visits to relatives and similar, against 246,588 for business and work, which rose 16.4%. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Jan 2026)
• Transit entries by foreign citizens rose 49.7% to 603,715 in 2025, so part of the growth is people passing through. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Jan 2026)
• Foreign citizens made 12,340,487 departures in 2025, close to the number of entries. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Jan 2026)
• Each crossing counts as a new entry, and in busy periods of the tourist season the border police do not register every person coming in, so the count may be low at the peak. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Jan 2026)

These are border entries by foreign citizens, not unique visitors or overnight tourists: one person who crosses several times counts each time, and day trips and transit are included. The figures are preliminary. They are a different measure from the guests counted in registered accommodation further down, and the two are not compared.

Where do Albania's visitors come from?

Most foreign visitors come from Albania's neighbours and from Italy, across the Adriatic. Kosovo alone accounts for more than a third of entries, and Germany is the largest market from further away.

1. 1 Kosovo 4.66m
2. 2 Italy 1.29m
3. 3 North Macedonia 0.96m
4. 4 Greece 0.80m
5. 5 Montenegro 0.78m
6. 6 Germany 0.45m
7. 7 United Kingdom 0.35m
8. 8 Turkey 0.31m
9. 9 France 0.29m
10. 10 Poland 0.29m

• Italy was the second-largest market, with 1,292,260 entries in 2025, more than ten times its 2010 level of 125,036. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)
• North Macedonia followed with 963,349 entries, then Greece with 803,979 and Montenegro with 781,808. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)
• Germany sent 452,825 entries, up 20.9% on 2024, and the United Kingdom 349,602. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)
• France grew fastest of the larger markets, up 34.0% to 293,299, while Turkey fell 7.5% to 308,224 and Poland 8.3% to 288,471. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)
• Arrivals from the United States roughly doubled, from 119,179 in 2019 to 241,064 in 2025. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)
• India grew from 2,189 entries in 2019 to 35,629 in 2025, and China reached 27,838. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)
• Other European markets in 2025 included the Netherlands with 136,050 entries, Serbia 131,020, the Czech Republic 117,041, Ukraine 114,896 and Belgium 110,976. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)
• Europe supplied 11,888,574 foreign entries in 2025, about 95% of the total, and Southern Europe, which includes Albania's neighbours and Italy, 8,919,296. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Jan 2026)
• Western Europe grew 19.5% to 1,183,377 entries, while the Americas sent 337,482 and East Asia and the Pacific 104,428. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Jan 2026)

Markets are border entries by citizenship and include same-day visitors and people in transit. Kosovo is not listed separately before 2019, so no Kosovo series before then is given. Growth rates and shares are our calculation from the official table.

Is Albanian tourism still growing in 2026?

Yes, but more slowly. Foreign entries in the first nine months of 2026 rose by less than in 2025, and September brought only a small rise.

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Foreign-citizen entries in August, the peak month, 2023 to 2026. The peak keeps rising, but by less each year.

Period	Value
Aug 2023	2.02m
Aug 2024	2.17m
Aug 2025	2.38m
Aug 2026	2.43m

• Foreign citizens made 10,730,391 entries from January to September 2026, up 4.9% on the same months of 2025. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Oct 2026)
• September 2026 brought 1,286,691 foreign entries, up 2.1% on September 2025. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)
• The August peak has risen every year since 2023, from 2,022,754 to 2,167,665 in 2024 and 2,381,864 in 2025. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)
• January 2026 was slightly below January 2025, with 552,187 foreign entries. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)
• From the September 2026 release, only total border counts are published, after inconsistencies were found in some detailed figures, so the breakdowns by country, purpose and region stop at July 2026. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Oct 2026)
• From January to July 2026, foreign entries totalled 7,014,168, up 6.5% on the same months of 2025. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)
• Italy grew 19.1% to 791,240 entries in those seven months, the United Kingdom 23.0% to 243,014 and Poland 39.1% to 212,996. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)
• Kosovo was almost flat, up 0.7% to 2,330,393, while North Macedonia fell 5.5% to 505,814, Germany 9.5% to 209,807 and Turkey 10.6% to 169,152. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)
• Some smaller markets grew fast: Spain rose 37.3% to 73,306, Ukraine 44.4% to 88,777 and Israel 37.4% to 42,865. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)

2026 figures are preliminary. Growth for January to July is our calculation from the monthly figures. Country detail ends at July 2026 because of the pause in detailed figures.

How do visitors get to Albania?

Two in three foreign visitors arrive by road, mostly from neighbouring countries. Air travel has grown fastest, and ferries carry a small share that is packed into the summer.

• Land 66.5%
• Air 28.8%
• Sea 4.7%

• Foreign citizens made 8,291,762 entries by land in 2025, 3,589,153 by air and 585,123 by sea. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)
• Foreign arrivals by air were 4.6 times their 2019 level of 783,863. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)
• Counting Albanian citizens as well, 14,205,209 entries in 2025 were by land, 5,843,677 by air and 948,048 by sea. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)
• Albania's sea ports handled 1,696,649 passengers getting on or off ships in 2025, up 6.4% on 2024. (INSTAT (transport), Nov 2026)
• Durres was the busiest port with 791,539 passengers, still below its 2019 level of 878,687; Saranda had 754,686 and Vlora 150,424. (INSTAT (transport), Nov 2026)
• Saranda grew 21.8% in 2025 and is up 46% on 2019, while Vlora fell 25.1%. (INSTAT (transport), Nov 2026)
• August 2025 alone carried 506,893 sea passengers, 29.9% of the year. (INSTAT (transport), Nov 2026)
• Sea passengers fell 2.0% to 1,446,110 from January to September 2026, with August down 7.2% at 470,522. (INSTAT (transport), Nov 2026)

Entries by mode count border crossings, not people, and shares are our calculation. Port figures count everyone getting on or off a ship and are not split by type of ship or by nationality. 2026 sea figures are provisional.

How busy is Tirana airport?

Tirana International Airport carries almost all of Albania's air traffic, and passenger numbers are still climbing fast in 2026. Low-cost airlines dominate, and Italy is by far the biggest market for flights.

1. 1 London 933,098
2. 2 Bergamo 658,709
3. 3 Rome 587,812
4. 4 Bologna 505,558
5. 5 Treviso 464,857

• Air passengers numbered 10,708,995 in 2024, up from 7,280,216 in 2023. (INSTAT (transport), Nov 2026)
• From January to September 2026, air passengers reached 10,819,926, up 19.8% on the same months of 2025. (INSTAT (transport), Nov 2026)
• August 2026 was the busiest month on record, with 1,705,450 air passengers, up 20.7% on August 2025. (INSTAT (transport), Nov 2026)
• The airport's own count for 2025 was 11,640,044 passengers, within a few dozen of the national total, and 69,896 aircraft movements, up 2%. (Tirana International Airport, Jan 2026)
• August was the airport's busiest month of 2025, with 1,413,064 passengers. (Tirana International Airport, Jan 2026)
• Air Albania, the national airline, carried 2.33% of the airport's passengers in 2025. (Tirana International Airport, Jan 2026)
• London was the busiest route in 2025, with 933,098 passengers, ahead of Bergamo with 658,709 and Rome with 587,812. (Tirana International Airport, Feb 2026)
• The 22 Italian airports with flights to Tirana together had 4,659,620 passengers, 40% of the airport's total, out of 107 destination cities. (Tirana International Airport, Feb 2026)
• The airport counted 7,666,994 passengers from January to July 2026, up 19%, and 1,646,841 in July alone, up 28%. (Tirana International Airport, Sep 2026)

Passenger counts include arrivals and departures. The London route combines the London airports served from Tirana. The Italian total and its share are our sums from the airport's route report.

How much do visitors spend in Albania?

Visitor spending has more than doubled since 2019 and set a new record in 2025. It is Albania's largest export of services, and about two fifths of it comes in the summer quarter.

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Visitor spending in Albania each year, 2015 to 2025, calculated from quarterly figures. Spending fell by half in 2020 and has grown each year since.

Period	Value
2015	€1.35bn
2016	€1.53bn
2017	€1.71bn
2018	€1.86bn
2019	€2.08bn
2020	€0.99bn
2021	€1.91bn
2022	€2.84bn
2023	€4.17bn
2024	€4.99bn
2025	€5.72bn

• Visitors spent 4,991.7 million euros in 2024 and 2,083.3 million euros in 2019, so 2025 was about 2.7 times the 2019 level. (Bank of Albania, Nov 2026)
• The pandemic cut visitor spending to 988.2 million euros in 2020. (Bank of Albania, Nov 2026)
• The July to September quarter brought 2,318.7 million euros in 2025, 41% of the year and 21.6% more than the same quarter of 2024. (Bank of Albania, Nov 2026)
• In the last quarter of 2025, travel exports grew 15.1% to 1.3 billion euros, a slower pace than in the summer. (Bank of Albania, Apr 2026)
• Albanians spent 3,038.9 million euros on travel abroad in 2025, leaving a net travel surplus of 2,684.3 million euros, up from 2,291.8 million euros in 2024. (Bank of Albania, Nov 2026)
• In the first half of 2026 visitors spent 2,380.1 million euros, up 13.4% on the first half of 2025. (Bank of Albania, Nov 2026)
• The first quarter of 2026 brought 1,003.8 million euros, the first time a January to March quarter passed 1 billion euros. (Bank of Albania, Nov 2026)

Annual totals are calculated from quarterly figures, using the latest revised data. The balance-of-payments travel measure counts spending in Albania by everyone living abroad, including Albanians who live in other countries, and leaves out international fares. Quarterly figures are revised with each release.

What is tourism worth to Albania's economy?

Albania has no official measure of tourism's share of its economy. The nearest is the hotels and restaurants sector, which has nearly tripled in value since 2019 but grew far more slowly in real terms in 2025.

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Share of Albania's GDP from the hotels and restaurants sector, 2015 to 2025. This is not tourism's share, which is not officially measured.

Period	Value
2015	2.19%
2016	2.27%
2017	2.57%
2018	2.91%
2019	2.96%
2020	2.38%
2021	2.64%
2022	3.34%
2023	4.48%
2024	4.96%
2025	5.48%

• The hotels and restaurants sector added 145,069 million lek of value in 2025, against 50,508 million lek in 2019, in current prices. (INSTAT (national accounts), Nov 2026)
• Its share of GDP was 2.19% in 2015, before the recent growth. (INSTAT (national accounts), Nov 2026)
• Measured against gross value added, the sector's share was 6.35% in 2025. (INSTAT (national accounts), Nov 2026)
• In real terms the sector grew 31.5% in 2022 and 29.6% in 2023, slowing to 16.0% in 2024 and 3.5% in 2025. (INSTAT (national accounts), Nov 2026)
• Albania's GDP was 2,648,505 million lek at current prices in 2025, with real growth of 3.66%. (INSTAT (national accounts), Jun 2026)
• Hotels and restaurants employed 7.8% of all people working in active businesses in 2025, up from 7.0% in 2021. (INSTAT (business register), Nov 2026)
• There were 3,151 active accommodation businesses in 2025, up from 1,372 in 2019 and 1,116 in 2015, and 15,275 food and drink businesses. (INSTAT (business register), Nov 2026)

The hotels and restaurants sector is the national-accounts activity "accommodation and food services". It includes meals and drinks bought by residents and leaves out what tourists spend on transport and shopping, so it is not tourism's share of GDP. 2025 national accounts are semi-final. Business register figures leave out the public sector, farmers and informal work.

How many tourists stay in Albania's hotels and other accommodation?

Registered accommodation recorded more than three times as many guests in 2025 as in 2019. Most guests live abroad, and most stay in hotels for two or three nights.

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Guests at registered accommodation in Albania each year, 2018 to 2025, calculated from monthly figures.

Period	Value
2018	1.24m
2019	1.25m
2020	0.67m
2021	1.23m
2022	1.57m
2023	2.34m
2024	3.18m
2025	4.21m

• Guests at registered accommodation rose 32.5% in 2025, from 3,178,441 in 2024 and 1,253,496 in 2019. (INSTAT (accommodation), Nov 2026)
• Guests living abroad numbered 784,709 in 2019, so their 2025 total was 3.9 times as high. (INSTAT (accommodation), Nov 2026)
• Guests spent 9,688,568 nights in registered accommodation in 2025, up 30.1% on 2024, and 7,144,974 of those nights, 73.7%, were by guests from abroad. (INSTAT (accommodation), Nov 2026)
• The average stay was about 2.3 nights in 2025, down from 2.60 nights in 2019, on our calculation of nights per guest. (INSTAT (accommodation), Nov 2026)
• Among guests from abroad, 2,782,629 stayed in hotels and similar places in 2025, 222,404 in holiday and other short-stay accommodation and 34,679 at campsites. (INSTAT (accommodation), Nov 2026)
• Guests from abroad in holiday and short-stay accommodation nearly doubled from 116,139 in 2024. (INSTAT (accommodation), Nov 2026)
• From January to August 2026 registered accommodation recorded 3,439,547 guests, up 14.1% on the same months of 2025. (INSTAT (accommodation), Nov 2026)
• Nights from January to August 2026 reached 8,024,273, up 11.2%, and August 2026 set a record of 2,546,233 nights, up 12.5% on August 2025. (INSTAT (accommodation), Nov 2026)
• In August 2026 the largest groups of guests from abroad came from Kosovo (17%), Poland (12%), Italy (10%), France (8%) and Germany (7%). (INSTAT (accommodation), Oct 2026)
• In winter the mix changes: in December 2025 Italy supplied 25% of guests from abroad, ahead of Kosovo with 16% and Germany with 6%. (INSTAT (accommodation), Feb 2026)

These figures cover registered accommodation only; unregistered rentals and visitors staying with family are outside the survey. Annual totals are calculated from monthly figures. The list of businesses surveyed is updated each year from the business register, so part of the growth may come from a wider survey list. Guests are counted by country of residence and border entries by citizenship, so the two counts measure different things and are not compared.

How many beds are there, and how full are hotels?

Hotels come close to full only in high summer. Across the year most beds stand empty, and the government counts far more beds than the official accommodation survey covers, because most are in short-term rentals.

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Bed occupancy in Albania's hotels by month, 2025. Hotels run below 30% full from October to May.

Period	Value
Jan	14.9%
Feb	16.1%
Mar	17.4%
Apr	24.9%
May	27.6%
Jun	39.4%
Jul	56.4%
Aug	68.9%
Sep	54.2%
Oct	29.5%
Nov	25.4%
Dec	21.7%

• Hotel room occupancy peaked at 61.5% in August 2025 and fell to 14.5% in January 2025. (INSTAT (accommodation), Nov 2026)
• Room occupancy reached 67.4% in August 2026, up 5.9 percentage points on a year earlier. (INSTAT (accommodation), Oct 2026)
• Hotel bed occupancy reached 72.8% in August 2026 and 68.9% in August 2025, up from 54.1% in August 2019. (INSTAT (accommodation), Nov 2026)
• January bed occupancy rose from 8.0% in 2019 to 14.9% in 2025. (INSTAT (accommodation), Nov 2026)
• Registered holiday and short-stay accommodation took only 326,238 guests in 2025, against 3,837,230 for hotels and similar places, on our sums of the monthly releases. (INSTAT (accommodation), Feb 2026)
• Albania had about 270,000 tourist beds in 2023 across all types of accommodation, including short-term rentals, on the draft strategy's estimate. (Government of Albania (draft strategy), Feb 2025)
• Short-term rentals held about 65% of those beds, hotels about 22% and other types 13%. (Government of Albania (draft strategy), Feb 2025)
• Average bed occupancy across all accommodation was about 21% a year. (Government of Albania (draft strategy), Feb 2025)

Occupancy rates are net rates for hotels and similar places only. The 270,000 beds figure is a 2023 government estimate from the report on the draft strategy and includes short-term rentals, so it is much broader than the official accommodation survey, which covers registered businesses only.

Where in Albania do visitors stay?

Tirana and the centre take the largest share of guests over a full year, but in summer most visitors head for the coast. In winter the pattern reverses and most guests from abroad stay inland.

• Centre 40.9%
• South 33.2%
• North 25.9%

• Across 2025 the Centre region, Tirana and Elbasan, received 40.9% of guests at registered accommodation, the South 33.2% and the North 25.9%. (INSTAT (accommodation), Feb 2026)
• Among guests from abroad, the Centre's share was 44.9%, or 1,364,603 guests. (INSTAT (accommodation), Feb 2026)
• Coastal areas received 2,585,415 guests over 2025, including 1,929,266 from abroad. (INSTAT (accommodation), Feb 2026)
• In August 2025, 78.8% of guests stayed in coastal areas, and guests from abroad on the coast rose 47.8% on August 2024. (INSTAT (accommodation), Oct 2025)
• In August 2026, 573,106 guests from abroad stayed in coastal areas, against 146,831 inland. (INSTAT (accommodation), Oct 2026)
• In December 2025, 67,321 guests from abroad stayed inland and 40,056 on the coast, and the Centre took 64,854 of the 107,377 total. (INSTAT (accommodation), Feb 2026)

Regions are the three statistical regions published each month, not cities or prefectures: Durres counts in the North, and Vlora, Saranda and Ksamil in the South. Full-year regional and coastal figures are our sums of the twelve monthly releases, about 0.2% below the revised annual total.

What are Albania's most visited sights?

Castles and ancient sites in the south draw the most visitors. Butrint, near Saranda, has grown fastest, and visits to state heritage sites are well above their pre-pandemic level.

1. 1 Gjirokaster Castle 307,164
2. 2 Butrint National Park 295,152
3. 3 Skanderbeg Museum, Kruje 182,032
4. 4 Shkoder Archaeological Park 178,942
5. 5 Apollonia 127,161
6. 6 Onufri Museum, Berat 102,004
7. 7 House of Leaves, Tirana 78,318
8. 8 Porto Palermo Castle 47,870

• State-run museums, castles and archaeological parks recorded 1,523,587 visits in 2025, up 15.9% on 2024 and 43% above 2019. (INSTAT (heritage sites), Nov 2026)
• Archaeological parks drew 625,651 visitors, museums 470,726 and castles and monuments 427,210. (INSTAT (heritage sites), Nov 2026)
• Butrint National Park drew 295,152 visitors in 2025, up 47.2% and almost two and a half times its 2023 level of 119,125. (INSTAT (heritage sites), Nov 2026)
• The Gjergj Kastrioti (Skanderbeg) Museum in Kruje had 182,032 visitors and Shkoder Archaeological Park 178,942. (INSTAT (heritage sites), Nov 2026)
• Apollonia Archaeological Park had 127,161 visitors, the Onufri Iconographic Museum in Berat 102,004 and the House of Leaves museum in Tirana 78,318. (INSTAT (heritage sites), Nov 2026)
• Porto Palermo Castle grew 58% to 47,870 visitors, and Durres Amphitheatre had 41,411. (INSTAT (heritage sites), Nov 2026)

Counts cover state heritage institutions only, not private, municipal or church sites. Berat Castle is not in the official table. The protected-area figure is a ministry total for all protected areas, with no breakdown by park.

How much do Albanians travel?

Albanians made millions of overnight trips in 2025, and trips abroad grew fast. At home, more of them now stay in hotels and fewer with family.

1. 1 Relatives or friends 43.8%
2. 2 Hotel 38.8%
3. 3 Private rented 10.5%
4. 4 Own holiday home 4.4%

• Residents aged 15 and over made 4.5 million overnight trips in Albania or abroad in 2025, averaging 5.3 nights each, and 97.6% were for personal reasons. (INSTAT (household travel survey), Jun 2026)
• Holidays and leisure were the main purpose of 52.8% of trips within Albania. (INSTAT (household travel survey), Jun 2026)
• The most visited areas at home were the prefectures of Tirana (13.7% of trips), Vlora (12.2%), and Korce and Durres (7.3% each). (INSTAT (household travel survey), Jun 2026)
• Trips abroad rose 14.3% in 2025, and 52.0% were to visit relatives and friends. Italy took 11.3% of trips abroad, Greece 10.4% and Germany 4.0%. (INSTAT (household travel survey), Jun 2026)
• On trips within Albania, residents stayed in hotels on 38.8% of trips in 2025, up from 17.4% in 2019, while stays with relatives or friends fell from 66.4% to 43.8%. (INSTAT (household travel survey), Nov 2026)
• Private rented accommodation was used on 10.5% of domestic trips in 2025, and own holiday homes on 4.4%. (INSTAT (household travel survey), Nov 2026)

These figures come from a household sample survey of residents aged 15 and over. They describe Albanians' own travel, not foreign visitors.

How safe is Albania for visitors?

Recorded thefts and robberies in Albania have fallen since 2019, and homicides are rare. There are no official figures for crimes against tourists, so these are national counts.

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Recorded thefts in Albania, the offence most likely to affect visitors, in 2019 and 2023 to 2025.

Period	Value
2019	4,290
2023	2,712
2024	2,133
2025	2,598

• Albania recorded 40 intentional homicides in 2025, the same as in 2024 and down from 58 in 2019, about 1.7 per 100,000 residents on our calculation. (INSTAT (crime statistics), Nov 2026)
• Recorded thefts fell from 4,290 in 2019 to 2,598 in 2025, down 39%, though they rose again in 2025 from 2,133 in 2024. (INSTAT (crime statistics), Nov 2026)
• Violent robberies fell from 85 in 2019 to 60 in 2025, and armed robberies from 13 to 6. (INSTAT (crime statistics), Nov 2026)
• Recorded fraud cases numbered 980 in 2025, against 959 in 2019. (INSTAT (crime statistics), Nov 2026)
• Total recorded criminal offences were 38,345 in 2025, against 35,210 in 2019, a count that includes traffic offences, domestic violence, cybercrime and border offences. (INSTAT (crime statistics), Nov 2026)

Figures are offences recorded by police across the whole country. The homicide rate uses the average of the January 2025 and January 2026 population counts.

When is the best time to visit Albania?

July and August are the hottest, driest and busiest months. May, June and September are warm with fewer visitors, and November is the wettest month.

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Average daily high temperature in Tirana by month, 1961 to 1990.

Period	Value
Jan	11.6°C
Feb	12.9°C
Mar	15.6°C
Apr	19.0°C
May	23.8°C
Jun	27.7°C
Jul	30.7°C
Aug	30.7°C
Sep	27.3°C
Oct	21.8°C
Nov	17.1°C
Dec	13.0°C

• In Tirana the average daily high is 30.7°C in July and August and 11.6°C in January, with a yearly mean temperature of 15.2°C. (DWD, 1961-1990)
• Tirana gets about 1,266mm of rain a year; November is the wettest month at 172mm and July the driest at 42mm. (DWD, 1951-1980)
• July averages 11.4 hours of sunshine a day in Tirana, against 2.9 hours in December. (DWD, 1956-1970)
• July and August brought 33.8% of the year's foreign entries in 2025, and June to September 54.5%. (INSTAT (movement of citizens), Nov 2026)
• Overnight stays are more seasonal: July and August held 42.4% of 2025 nights in registered accommodation, and June to September 67.0%. (INSTAT (accommodation), Nov 2026)
• August 2025 had 2,263,355 nights in registered accommodation, 9.7 times as many as January. (INSTAT (accommodation), Nov 2026)
• September hotel bed occupancy doubled from 26.9% in 2019 to 54.2% in 2025, a sign that the season is getting longer. (INSTAT (accommodation), Nov 2026)

Climate figures are long-term averages for Tirana airport from the German weather service, for the periods shown: temperature 1961-1990, rainfall 1951-1980 and sunshine 1956-1970. No official averages for the coast were found. Seasonal shares are our calculation from monthly figures.

What are Albania's tourism targets for 2030?

The draft national tourism strategy for 2025 to 2030 sets targets for more beds, longer stays and a longer season. On the central bank figures, visitor spending in 2025 was already most of the way to the 2030 revenue goal.

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Tourist beds in Albania: the 2023 estimate and the draft strategy's 2030 target, both including short-term rentals.

Period	Value
2023 estimate	about 270,000
2030 target	477,414

• The draft aims for 477,414 beds by 2030, growing about 8% a year. (Government of Albania (draft strategy), Feb 2025)
• It targets 73,778 tourism jobs by 2030, from 42,698 people employed in tourism in 2023. (Government of Albania (draft strategy), Feb 2025)
• Average bed occupancy is meant to rise to 34% by 2030 and the average stay to 6.0 nights, from an estimated 4.8 nights now. (Government of Albania (draft strategy), Feb 2025)
• It aims for about 35% of nights to fall outside the summer peak by 2030. (Government of Albania (draft strategy), Feb 2025)
• It projects 9.8 million arrivals registered for tourism and 58.4 million nights in commercial accommodation by 2030. (Government of Albania (draft strategy), Feb 2025)
• Tourist tax revenue is projected to reach 85.1 million euros by 2030, from about 21.6 million euros from the overnight tax now. (Government of Albania (draft strategy), Feb 2025)

These are targets from the February 2025 report on the draft strategy; the final adopted figures were not located. The 2023 jobs figure is quoted in that report and could not be traced to a published table. The strategy's arrivals, nights and length-of-stay measures use different definitions from the border and accommodation figures above, so they are not compared.

Methodology and sources

Figures come from Albania's official producers: INSTAT for border movements, accommodation, transport, heritage sites, national accounts, the business register, the household travel survey and crime, each labelled by dataset; the Bank of Albania for visitor spending; Tirana International Airport for its own traffic, airlines and routes; the government's February 2025 report on the draft tourism strategy for beds and 2030 targets; the Ministry of Environment for protected areas; and the German weather service for Tirana's climate averages. Each figure links to the document or table that carries it, with the date. INSTAT publishes accommodation data monthly and the Bank of Albania publishes spending quarterly, so annual totals are calculated from monthly or quarterly figures; where we calculated a share, a sum, a growth rate or a ratio, the text or note says so. Border entries and accommodation guests measure different things and are never added or compared. There is no official measure of tourism's share of GDP, so the hotels and restaurants sector is given under that name. The page is reviewed monthly and the date is shown at the top.

• Bank of Albania · Nov 2026
• Bank of Albania · Apr 2026
• DWD · 1961-1990
• Government of Albania (draft strategy) · Feb 2025
• INSTAT (accommodation) · Nov 2026
• INSTAT (accommodation) · Nov 2026
• INSTAT (accommodation) · Nov 2026
• INSTAT (accommodation) · Oct 2026
• INSTAT (accommodation) · Feb 2026
• INSTAT (accommodation) · Nov 2026
• INSTAT (accommodation) · Feb 2026
• INSTAT (accommodation) · Oct 2025
• INSTAT (business register) · Nov 2026
• INSTAT (business register) · Nov 2026
• INSTAT (crime statistics) · Nov 2026
• INSTAT (heritage sites) · Nov 2026
• INSTAT (heritage sites) · Nov 2026
• INSTAT (household travel survey) · Jun 2026
• INSTAT (household travel survey) · Nov 2026
• INSTAT (movement of citizens) · Jan 2026
• INSTAT (movement of citizens) · Nov 2026
• INSTAT (movement of citizens) · Nov 2026
• INSTAT (movement of citizens) · Nov 2026
• INSTAT (movement of citizens) · Oct 2026
• INSTAT (movement of citizens) · Nov 2026
• INSTAT (movement of citizens) · Nov 2026
• INSTAT (national accounts) · Nov 2026
• INSTAT (national accounts) · Jun 2026
• INSTAT (transport) · Nov 2026
• INSTAT (transport) · Nov 2026
• INSTAT (transport) · Nov 2026
• INSTAT (transport) · Nov 2026
• Ministry of Environment · Jan 2026
• Tirana International Airport · Jan 2026
• Tirana International Airport · Jan 2026
• Tirana International Airport · Feb 2026
• Tirana International Airport · Sep 2026