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Can you afford it?

Tell us what lands in your account each month. We will set it against the four costs our city guides can actually source, rent, a desk, weekday lunches and getting around, and show you what is left for everything else.

Tirana, a month

£567 to £1,030 for the basics.

Add your take-home pay above to see what is left.

Not every cost has a checked figure for Tirana, so the real total is higher than this. The missing ones are marked below.

RentAsking rent, one-bed, Dinamo stadium area, from agencies quoted by Balkanweb, June 2026. Furnished or not is not stated. The city-wide average for all flats is EUR 721. EUR 500 to 1,000
£421 to £843
A deskMonthly hot desk at Coolab, near Blloku, from a 2026 travel blog rather than the operator. Dutch Hub is EUR 120 to 150 on the same page. EUR 100 to 130
£84 to £110
Weekday lunchesA street gyro and a soft drink, from a May 2026 travel blog's sample Tirana day. A byrek from a bakery is 80 to 150 ALL on the same page, ALL 300 to 400 each, 22 working days
£61 to £81
Getting aroundNo checked bus fare or monthly pass for Tirana
Not included

Albania's Unique Permit for Digital Mobile Workers asks for about £296 a month in income. Check your own case

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What is counted. Four costs, and only four, because they are the ones every guide can source: rent, a desk, a lunch on each of 22 working days, and getting around. Food shopping, bills, a phone, insurance, tax and evenings out are not in it, which is why the answer is what is left for everything else, not what is left to save.

Where the figures come from. Each city's guide, checked against official statistics, the operators' own price pages and dated listings. Each line says what it is. Where a guide only publishes rent per square metre, the line says what size flat it assumes. Last copied from the guides on 3 October 2026.

The exchange rates. The same daily feed as the visa checker, from ExchangeRate-API, last updated 20 October 2026. Pesos are converted at the official rate.