VacationSelector

Cancun or Skopje?

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

Your match

Cancun
✓ Best match
50
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Skopje
47
match

Wins on sights concentration and value for money 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.

CancunSkopje
Beaches & swimming. Cancun leads by 97 points.97
CancunSkopje
Score970
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km230
Coast distance3 km151 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Skopje leads by 5 points.5
CancunSkopje
Score5459
Restaurants within 2 km of centre681396
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1839
Museums & heritage. Skopje leads by 7 points.7
CancunSkopje
Score2027
Museums within 10 km113
Museums within 2 km of centre111
Share of museums within 2 km %10085
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Skopje leads by 10 points.10
CancunSkopje
Score3646
Drinking venues within 4 km270492
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre175351
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6571
Nightclubs within 4 km3322
Nature & day trips. Cancun leads by 14 points.14
CancunSkopje
Score5440
Protected land share 50 km %911
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %45100
Park area within 2 km66 hectares67 hectares
Good for families. Skopje leads by 8 points.8
CancunSkopje
Score3240
Tourist attractions within 2 km215
Park area within 2 km66 hectares67 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Skopje leads by 47 points.47
CancunSkopje
Score451
Notable places within 2 km575
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 14 points.14
CancunSkopje
Score7690
Price level global54.234.4
Daily budget€72
Year-round weather. Cancun leads by 14 points.14
CancunSkopje
Score8167
Monthly daytime high26.2 °C to 30.3 °C4.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 224 mm29 mm to 58 mm
Dry months17
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
Cancun
26
27
28
29
30
30
30
30
30
29
27
27
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Sea temperature, °C
Cancun
27
26
26
27
28
28
29
29
29
29
28
27
Skopje
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cancun
63
50
38
41
92
181
89
114
166
224
124
68
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Daylight, hours per day
Cancun
11
11
12
13
13
13
13
13
12
12
11
11
Skopje
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cancun
No sunshine record
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. Cancun: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Skopje: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990, rainfall 1961-1990) normals, Skopje-Petrovec (18.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCancunSkopje
IstanbulIST, SAW
12 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
1 h 20 m
€112-116
SKP · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
10 h 45 m
€657-706
1 stop
CUN · 14 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ZurichZRH
10 h 55 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 40 m
€104-151
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
MadridMAD
10 h 0 m
€721-977
CUN · 14 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
10 h 25 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
OHD · 107 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 0 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
11 h 40 m
no fares
CUN · 14 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
OsloOSL, TRF
10 h 35 m
no fares
CUN · 14 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 2026-09 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

MeasureCancunSkopje
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Denar (MKD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation5 m251 m
Main airportCancún International Airport (CUN)14 km from centre136 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCancunSkopje
City population888,797422,540
People per km²739
Museums within 10 km117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3156
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). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.