Is Sarandë or Ksamil better for a night out?
It depends on the hours you keep: Sarandë has the early evening, Ksamil the small hours. The table sets the two side by side as they ran in summer 2026, from the official posters and ticket pages.
| Summer 2026 | Sarandë | Ksamil |
|---|---|---|
| Earliest start | Vikingen boat, from 17:30 | Club doors at 23:30 |
| Latest finish | Mango Club, until 04:00 | La Parisienne, until 05:00 |
| Kind of venue | A party boat, a resort pool, a seaside terrace and clubs in town | Beach clubs, a beach with its own nightclub and a lounge bar |
| Weekly nights | Le Classico on Sundays, the Infinity Sunset Pool Party on Thursdays, Ladies Night on Fridays, the White Party Sunset Edition on Sundays and Tuesdays | White Party on Sundays, The Wolf of Wall Street and Bad Bunnies on Saturdays, Love Night on Mondays and Saturdays |
| Getting there | Mostly in town; Bougainville and Lost Seaside on the road south | South along the coast road; a shuttle on some nights |
Choose Sarandë if you want to start early
Sarandë owns the hours before midnight. The Vikingen boat party starts on the promenade at 17:30 and is back at 21:00, and Bougainville Bay Resort billed a party around its infinity pool on Thursdays, 19:00 to midnight.
The white parties at Lost Seaside, on the road out of town towards Ksamil, started at 19:00 on Sundays or 20:00 on Tuesdays. Lost Seaside is closed for now: its own Instagram says it reopens in summer 2027.
Later, the town has its own club nights. Mango Club on Rruga Rilindja ran Flirt and La Guerre 23:30–04:00, and Rock & Blues near the promenade held its Ladies Night on Fridays.
Choose Ksamil if you want to finish late
Ksamil's beach clubs close later than the venues in Sarandë. At Greg Beach Club the club nights ran from midnight to 04:30, and La Parisienne, on Wednesday, 2 September 2026, went on until 05:00.
Greg's White Party filled Sundays, Principotes had The Wolf of Wall Street every Saturday, and Poda alternated Love Night and Bad Bunnies. Principotes is a beach by day and a club called La Guerre by night, opening at 22:30 in a season it gives as May to September.
Love Night had its own ritual at the door: a coloured bracelet to show whether you were taken, single or there for one night only.
How do you get to the clubs out of town, and back?
Plan it before you go: Ksamil lies south of Sarandë along the coast road, and most nights published no transport. A few 2026 nights solved it for you.
The Saturday Love Night at Poda ran a shuttle from Sarandë at 23:00, from the corner of Rruga Skënderbeu (SH8) and Rruga 40 Shenjtorët, and the return left the club at about 03:00. Bad Bunnies, also at Poda, gave a transport departure at 23:15.
Pegasus Beach Club, in Sarandë, was reached by sea. Its 2026 ticket page listed boats at 00:00 and 01:00, a crossing of 40 min, for a party that ran from 23:00 to 04:00.
Can you do both on the same night?
Yes, the hours fit together. A boat or a sunset party in Sarandë finishes by nine or midnight, just as the Ksamil beach clubs open their doors at half past eleven or midnight.
That was the logic of the 2026 three-night passes, which mixed a Sarandë seafront night, a Ksamil club night and the Lost Seaside sunset in between. The white nights of both towns are in our white parties story, and the French ones in the French summer of 2026.
When will the 2027 nights be announced?
Nothing for 2027 had been published when we last read the ticket listings for Albania, on 31 October 2026. As soon as the venues announce their nights, the dates go up on our 2027 page.
