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Sockets and voltage in Albania

  • Type CCEE 7/16 (Europlug)No earth
  • Type FCEE 7/3 (Schuko)Earthed
Voltage
230 V
Frequency
50 Hz
Earthed sockets
Type F

What you need, by where you are coming from

  • Arriving from the United States or CanadaA plug adapter, and appliances marked 100-240 V. Anything single-voltage needs a converter.
  • Arriving from the UK or IrelandA plug adapter is enough - the voltage is the same as at home.
  • Arriving from most of continental EuropePlugs go straight in and the voltage matches. Nothing to pack.
  • Arriving from Australia or New ZealandA plug adapter is enough - the voltage is the same as at home.

Socket types, voltage and frequency are the nominal domestic supply as published in IEC/TR 60083 and the national standards it lists.

Albanian sockets are Type and at 230 V - the Schuko outlet, the same as Greece and the rest of the western Balkans.

Sockets in Albania are Type and at 230 V, 50 Hz - the round two-pin Schuko outlet.

  • A Europlug fits every socket in the country.
  • Greece, North Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro match. Italy, across the water, adds its own Type socket.
  • British, American and Australian plugs need an adapter.
  • Power cuts are less frequent than they were but the supply still sags in the mountains under evening load, so charge when you can.
  • 230 V, so only American 120 V-only appliances need a converter.
  • The ferry to Corfu changes nothing - Greece uses the same socket, the same voltage and the same frequency.

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