Plugs and voltage
Albania uses Types C and F sockets. Mains supply is 230 V at 50 Hz.
At 230 V, devices made only for 100–127 V (many American and Japanese hair dryers, curling irons and some shavers) will be damaged without a step-down converter. Chargers labelled “100–240V” work fine with just a plug adapter.
Money
ALL Albanian Lek ALL
Average in 2025: 1 USD = 86.80 ALL (World Bank). No daily reference rate is published for this currency by the ECB; check a live rate before exchanging.
Price level 54 (US = 100, 2025)
Everyday household prices in Albania are about 54% of US prices when converted at market exchange rates: dearer than the median country (50). All countries
Language
- Albanianofficial100%
Bars show the share of the population that speaks each language (CLDR estimates).
Time
Albania is on UTC+1 (standard time; clocks change for daylight saving).
Driving
Traffic in Albania drives on the right, so the steering wheel is on the left.
Public holidays in the next 12 months
25 national public holidays from 2 November 2026. Banks, offices and many shops close; regional holidays are not shown. Dates marked “estimated” follow a lunar calendar and can move by a day.
November 2026
- Alphabet Day
- Alphabet Day (observed)
- Flag and Independence Day
- Liberation Day
- Flag and Independence Day (observed)
December 2026
- Liberation Day (observed)
- National Youth Day
- Christmas Day
January 2027
- New Year's Day
- New Year's Day
- New Year's Day (observed)
March 2027
- Eid al-Fitr (estimated)
- Summer Day
- Summer Day (observed)
- Nowruz Day
- Catholic Easter Sunday
- Catholic Easter Sunday (observed)
May 2027
- International Workers' Day
- Orthodox Easter Sunday
- International Workers' Day (observed)
- Orthodox Easter Sunday (observed)
- Eid al-Adha (estimated)
- Eid al-Adha (observed, estimated)
September 2027
- Mother Teresa Canonization Day
- Mother Teresa Canonization Day (observed)
Travel advisories
United States · State Department
Level 2 Exercise increased caution
Read the full advisory. Checked 2026-11-02.
United Kingdom · FCDO
No warnings The FCDO does not advise against travel to Albania.
Updated 2026-10-15. Read the full advice. Checked 2026-11-02.
Advisories are written for each government's own citizens and change without notice: read the original before you travel.
Other practical facts
- Calling code
- +355
- Internet domain
- .al
- Measurement
- Metric
- Paper size
- A4
- Week starts on
- Monday
- Read more
- Wikipedia
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Flag: Flag of Albania.svg, Public domain. Arms: Coat of arms of Albania.svg, Public domain. Electricity: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), see methodology.
