VacationSelector

Biarritz or Skopje?

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

Your match

Biarritz
38
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Skopje
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

BiarritzSkopje
Beaches & swimming. Biarritz leads by 67 points.67
BiarritzSkopje
Score670
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km430
Coast distance1 km151 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Skopje leads by 27 points.27
BiarritzSkopje
Score3259
Restaurants within 2 km of centre207396
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1339
Museums & heritage. Biarritz leads by 4 points.4
BiarritzSkopje
Score3127
Museums within 10 km1613
Museums within 2 km of centre511
Share of museums within 2 km %3185
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Skopje leads by 31 points.31
BiarritzSkopje
Score1546
Drinking venues within 4 km105492
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre82351
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7871
Nightclubs within 4 km622
Nature & day trips. Skopje leads by 10 points.10
BiarritzSkopje
Score3040
Protected land share 50 km %611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %64100
Park area within 2 km32 hectares67 hectares
Good for families. Skopje leads by 19 points.19
BiarritzSkopje
Score2140
Tourist attractions within 2 km215
Park area within 2 km32 hectares67 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Skopje leads by 28 points.28
BiarritzSkopje
Score2351
Notable places within 2 km1575
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 28 points.28
BiarritzSkopje
Score6290
Price level global73.734.4
Daily budget€160€72
Year-round weather. Skopje leads by 2 points.2
BiarritzSkopje
Score6567
Monthly daytime high13.1 °C to 25.8 °C4.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall97 mm to 224 mm29 mm to 58 mm
Dry months07
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
Biarritz
13
14
16
18
21
23
25
26
24
21
16
14
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Sea temperature, °C
Biarritz
13
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
21
18
16
14
Skopje
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Biarritz
166
143
127
147
133
106
97
110
146
166
224
179
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Daylight, hours per day
Biarritz
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Skopje
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Biarritz
3
3
5
5
6
6
7
7
6
4
3
2
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. Biarritz: 1991-2020 normals, San Sebastian / Fuenterrabia (24.4 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 fromBiarritzSkopje
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 45 m
€192-214
BIO · 111 km
1 h 20 m
€112-116
SKP · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€129-164
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 40 m
€104-151
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 0 m
€196-210
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
OHD · 107 km
MunichMUC
2 h 10 m
€203-242
1 stop
BIO · 111 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
PRN · 72 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 50 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BaselBSL
1 h 40 m
no fares
BIQ · 3 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
€126-289
1 stop
BIQ · 3 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
MadridMAD
1 h 5 m
€76-169
EAS · 23 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ViennaVIE
2 h 35 m
no fares
BIO · 111 km
1 h 35 m
€174-193
1 stop
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 2026-09 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

MeasureBiarritzSkopje
Official languageFrenchAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Denar (MKD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m251 m
Main airportBiarritz Pays Basque airport (BIQ)3 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBiarritzSkopje
City population26,206422,540
People per km²2,240739
Museums within 10 km817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2456
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.