VacationSelector

Bologna or Skopje?

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

Your match

Bologna
✓ Best match
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Skopje
47
match

Wins on value for money and places to eat 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.

BolognaSkopje
Beaches & swimming. Bologna and Skopje are level on 0.
BolognaSkopje
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km20
Coast distance74 km151 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Skopje leads by 1 points.1
BolognaSkopje
Score5859
Restaurants within 2 km of centre822396
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2039
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 40 points.40
BolognaSkopje
Score6727
Museums within 10 km5813
Museums within 2 km of centre4311
Share of museums within 2 km %7485
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Bologna leads by 7 points.7
BolognaSkopje
Score5346
Drinking venues within 4 km720492
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531351
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7471
Nightclubs within 4 km3022
Nature & day trips. Skopje leads by 1 points.1
BolognaSkopje
Score3940
Protected land share 50 km %711
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km119 hectares67 hectares
Good for families. Bologna leads by 15 points.15
BolognaSkopje
Score5540
Tourist attractions within 2 km3215
Park area within 2 km119 hectares67 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Bologna leads by 9 points.9
BolognaSkopje
Score6051
Notable places within 2 km12075
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 22 points.22
BolognaSkopje
Score6890
Price level global64.934.4
Daily budget€155€72
Year-round weather. Bologna and Skopje are level on 67.
BolognaSkopje
Score6767
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C4.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm29 mm to 58 mm
Dry months57
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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Skopje
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 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 fromBolognaSkopje
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 20 m
€112-116
SKP · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 20 m
€85-160
BLQ · 6 km
1 h 35 m
€174-193
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 5 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 40 m
€104-151
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
BaselBSL
1 h 20 m
no fares
RMI · 114 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BerlinBER
1 h 40 m
€170-245
2 stops
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 10 m
€99-114
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
2 h 35 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBolognaSkopje
Official languageItalianAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Denar (MKD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation54 m251 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaSkopje
City population387,971422,540
People per km²2,754739
Museums within 10 km6617
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre6256

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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. 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.