VacationSelector

Bangkok or Skopje?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife with your weighting.

Skopje
47
match

Wins on year-round weather and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

BangkokSkopje
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 40 points.40
BangkokSkopje
Score400
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance23 km151 km
Water distance23 km—
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 24 points.24
BangkokSkopje
Score8359
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,957396
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2639
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 19 points.19
BangkokSkopje
Score4627
Museums within 10 km10313
Museums within 2 km of centre3011
Share of museums within 2 km %2985
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 37 points.37
BangkokSkopje
Score8346
Drinking venues within 4 km3,383492
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396351
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4171
Nightclubs within 4 km7222
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 11 points.11
BangkokSkopje
Score5140
Protected land share 50 km %—11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %83100
Park area within 2 km42 hectares67 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 17 points.17
BangkokSkopje
Score5740
Tourist attractions within 2 km3115
Park area within 2 km42 hectares67 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Skopje leads by 3 points.3
BangkokSkopje
Score4851
Notable places within 2 km6275
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 3 points.3
BangkokSkopje
Score9390
Price level global29.734.4
Daily budget—€72
Year-round weather. Skopje leads by 11 points.11
BangkokSkopje
Score5667
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C4.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm29 mm to 58 mm
Dry months37
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Skopje
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Skopje
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
Skopje
3
4
5
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Skopje: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990, rainfall 1961-1990) normals, Skopje-Petrovec (18.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokSkopje
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 20 m
€112-116
SKP · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ViennaVIE
10 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
1 h 35 m
€174-193
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
11 h 35 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 20 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 40 m
€104-151
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
10 h 50 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
2 h 35 m
€140-155
2 stops
SKP · 16 km
OsloOSL, TRF
10 h 50 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureBangkokSkopje
Official languageThaiAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyBaht (THB)Denar (MKD)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199112
Elevation2 m251 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokSkopje
City population5,676,648422,540
People per km²3,619739
Museums within 10 km5917
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre9156
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months–

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.