August is Albania's busiest month, with 23.4% of 2025's tourist nights, and February the quietest, with 2.3%. July and August together carried 42.4% of the year, making Albania the third most seasonal of 35 European countries we measured. June and September were almost identical, at 12.4% and 12.3%.
Albania, month by month
- Two busiest months
- Other months
When is Albania busiest, and when is it quietest?
August was the busiest month in 2025, with 23.4% of the year's tourist nights. February was the quietest, with 2.3%. That makes August 10.0 times as busy as February.1
Eight months each carried less than an average month's share of 8.3%: January, February, March, April, May, October, November and December.
Who stays in Albania: residents or guests from abroad?
In 2025, guests living abroad spent 73.8% of Albania's tourist nights. Residents of Albania spent the rest.1
- Highest share from abroad
- Other months
The share from abroad was highest in May, at 77.4% of that month's nights, and lowest in January, at 61.3%.1
Guests from abroad spent more than half of the nights in every month of the year.
Eurostat counts guests by the country they live in, not by nationality.2
How seasonal is Albania compared with the rest of Europe?
July and August together carried 42.4% of Albania's nights. Ranked by that share, Albania is the third most seasonal of the 35 European countries we measured, where 1 is the country most concentrated into its two busiest months.1
For comparison, the most seasonal country on this measure was Croatia at 54.5%, and the least seasonal was Malta at 21.8%. See all 35 countries ranked.
How full are Albania's hotels each month?
Hotel rooms were fullest in August, when 61.5% were in use, and emptiest in January, at 14.5%.3
- Fullest month
- Other months
This is Eurostat's net occupancy rate of bedrooms: bedrooms in use divided by bedrooms available. It covers hotels and similar places only, not campsites or holiday lets, so it can peak in a different month from the nights figures above.2
How long do guests stay in Albania?
Guests stayed an average of 2.3 nights each time they checked in at tourist accommodation in Albania in 2025: 9,672,091 nights across 4,202,129 arrivals.4 Across the 33 countries on this site with complete figures, the average ran from 1.5 nights in Iceland to 4.7 in Cyprus.4
This is our division of Eurostat's two counts. Eurostat counts an arrival each time a guest checks in at a place to stay, so a traveller who moves between places is counted more than once, and a whole trip is longer than the figure suggests.2
What are Albania's public holidays in 2026?
In Albania, public holidays fall on 15 days in 2026.5 In 2026, 8 of those days are a Saturday or Sunday.5 2027 dates are not published yet. When a holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the rest day moves to the following working day or days; in 2026 the Bank of Albania is also closed on 16 and 23 March, 6 and 13 April, 7 September, 23 and 30 November and 1 December for that reason. The two Bajram dates follow the lunar calendar.
| Holiday | 2026 |
|---|---|
| New Year holidays Festat e Vitit të Ri | Thu 1 January |
| New Year holidays Festat e Vitit të Ri | Fri 2 January |
| Summer Day Dita e Verës | Sat 14 March |
| Eid al-Fitr (Bajrami i Madh) Dita e Bajramit të Madh | Fri 20 March |
| Nowruz Dita e Nevruzit | Sun 22 March |
| Catholic Easter Sunday E diela e Pashkëve Katolike | Sun 5 April |
| Orthodox Easter Sunday E diela e Pashkëve Ortodokse | Sun 12 April |
| International Workers' Day Dita Ndërkombëtare e Punëtorëve | Fri 1 May |
| Eid al-Adha (Kurban Bajram) Dita e Kurban Bajramit | Wed 27 May |
| Day of the Canonisation of Saint Teresa Dita e Shenjtërimit të Shenjt Terezës | Sat 5 September |
| Alphabet Day Dita e Alfabetit | Sun 22 November |
| Flag and Independence Day Dita Flamurit dhe e Pavarësisë | Sat 28 November |
| Liberation Day Dita e Çlirimit | Sun 29 November |
| National Youth Day Dita Kombëtare e Rinisë | Tue 8 December |
| Christmas Day Krishtlindjet | Fri 25 December |
We took these dates from the official list named in the sources, not from a holiday website. Regional and local holidays are not included.
June or September? May or October?
June and September were almost identical, at 12.4% and 12.3%.
October was quieter than May, at 5.9% against 6.9%.
These compare months at similar distances from the summer peak. They do not account for weather, which we have not measured.
What these figures cannot tell you
These figures are good at one thing: showing when a country's registered tourist accommodation fills up. Four things they cannot do.
They miss some small places. The counts cover hotels, holiday and short-stay accommodation and campsites, but countries may exclude establishments with fewer than ten bed places, so small guesthouses can be missing.2
Nights are not queues. A national monthly total cannot see how busy one old town, beach or museum is on a given day.
They say nothing about weather or prices. A quiet month may be quiet for reasons that matter to your trip. We have not published weather or price data here, because we have not verified any.
They are one year. These are 2025 figures. Patterns shift from year to year, and Eurostat revises its data as countries update their returns.
The full year
| Month | Share of year | Nights | From abroad |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.4% | 230,420 | 61.3% |
| February | 2.3% | 226,431 | 64.7% |
| March | 3.0% | 294,082 | 65.4% |
| April | 4.9% | 475,233 | 71.9% |
| May | 6.9% | 671,231 | 77.4% |
| June | 12.4% | 1,201,253 | 76.3% |
| July (one of the two busiest months) | 19.0% | 1,839,778 | 74.0% |
| August (one of the two busiest months) | 23.4% | 2,263,355 | 74.7% |
| September | 12.3% | 1,189,483 | 76.1% |
| October | 5.9% | 573,215 | 75.5% |
| November | 4.2% | 404,055 | 73.5% |
| December | 3.1% | 303,555 | 63.0% |
Total for 2025: 9,672,091 nights, 73.8% of them by guests living abroad. The two busiest months are marked. "From abroad" is the share of that month's nights spent by guests living outside Albania.
Key takeaways
- February was Albania's quietest month in 2025, with 2.3% of the year's tourist nights.
- July and August were the busiest, carrying 42.4% of the year between them.
- Albania ranks 3 of 35 European countries for seasonal concentration, where 1 is the most concentrated.
- Guests living abroad spent 73.8% of Albania's 2025 tourist nights; residents spent the rest.
- Hotel rooms were fullest in August (61.5% in use) and emptiest in January (14.5%).
- Public holidays in Albania fall on 15 days in 2026.
- June and September were almost identical, at 12.4% and 12.3%.
- What we would skip: choosing between June and September on crowds alone. In Albania they were 12.4% and 12.3%.
Sources
Every figure on this page comes from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, which receives it from each country's national statistical authority. We downloaded the monthly counts directly and calculated the shares, rankings and comparisons ourselves. See how we research.
- Source: Eurostat, Nights spent at tourist accommodation establishments – monthly data, doi:10.2908/TOUR_OCC_NIM, accessed 25 September 2026. Dataset last updated by Eurostat on 22 September 2026. Extract: number of nights, NACE codes I55.1–I55.3, all guests and split by guests resident in the country and abroad, January–December 2025.
- Eurostat, Tourist accommodation reference metadata, on collection by national authorities under Regulation (EU) 692/2011, the definition of a night spent, country of residence, and the ten-bed-place threshold. Read it. Checked 17 September 2026.
- Source: Eurostat, Net occupancy rate of bed-places and bedrooms in hotels and similar accommodation – monthly data, doi:10.2908/TOUR_OCC_MNOR, accessed 22 September 2026. Extract: bedrooms, percentage, January–December 2025.
- Source: Eurostat, Arrivals at tourist accommodation establishments – monthly data, doi:10.2908/TOUR_OCC_ARM, with the nights data (tour_occ_nim), accessed 25 September 2026. Extract: number of arrivals and nights, NACE codes I55.1–I55.3, all guests, January–December 2025. Average stay is our calculation: nights divided by arrivals.
- Public holidays: Bank of Albania, Kalendari i festave zyrtare për vitin 2026 (updated 29 October 2025). Read it. Accessed 23 September 2026.
Modified data. The monthly shares, residence shares, rankings and comparisons are our own calculations from Eurostat's counts. Percentages are rounded to one decimal place, so they may not add exactly. Eurostat bears no responsibility for these calculations or for how the figures are presented here.