Kukës

Kukës is a town of 36,000 people (2023) in Northeastern Albania, and the last one before the Kosovo border. The surrounding area is dominated by mountainous and high terrain. Wikivoyage

Population 15,643 (Wikidata)

Live guideOpen the live guide From your hotelStart from your hotel

Before you go

Emergency numbers in Albania

• 112AnyAll emergencies
• 127AmbulanceAmbulance
• 128FireFire
• 129PolicePolice

Visas and entry What your passport needs for Albania

Getting there

Where are you starting from?

Where are you starting from?

Remembered in this browser only, with the last few you used.

Still gathering the markets around Kukës. I'll let you know here when it's all in — or open the live guide.

Best-documented sights

All of them in the guide

• Kukes Ethnographic Museum Museum · 440 m
• Kukës Underground City Attraction · 820 m
• Buste of Qerime (Shota) Galica Monument · 490 m

Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.

Eating nearby

• Pizza 2
• Balkan 1

All 13 places to eat

Want picks in Kukës that suit you? Ask your travel assistant, free with an account. Something wrong or missing on this page? Tell me

Places © OpenStreetMap contributors, as of 9 October 2026. Description from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA). Events from Wikidata and Wikivoyage, population from Wikidata.