VacationSelector

Cannes or Skopje?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Cannes
49
match

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

Skopje
47
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife 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.

CannesSkopje
Beaches & swimming. Cannes leads by 73 points.73
CannesSkopje
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km680
Coast distance1 km151 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Skopje leads by 9 points.9
CannesSkopje
Score5059
Restaurants within 2 km of centre473396
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1939
Museums & heritage. Cannes leads by 9 points.9
CannesSkopje
Score3627
Museums within 10 km3113
Museums within 2 km of centre511
Share of museums within 2 km %1685
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Skopje leads by 18 points.18
CannesSkopje
Score2846
Drinking venues within 4 km188492
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre164351
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8771
Nightclubs within 4 km1922
Nature & day trips. Skopje leads by 7 points.7
CannesSkopje
Score3340
Protected land share 50 km %1711
Landscape blanket share 50 km %160
Land share of disc %53100
Park area within 2 km13 hectares67 hectares
Good for families. Skopje leads by 15 points.15
CannesSkopje
Score2540
Tourist attractions within 2 km715
Park area within 2 km13 hectares67 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Cannes leads by 5 points.5
CannesSkopje
Score5651
Notable places within 2 km9575
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 28 points.28
CannesSkopje
Score6290
Price level global73.734.4
Daily budget€160€72
Year-round weather. Cannes leads by 7 points.7
CannesSkopje
Score7467
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C4.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 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
Cannes
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Sea temperature, °C
Cannes
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
23
20
18
16
Skopje
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cannes
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Daylight, hours per day
Cannes
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
Cannes
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
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. Cannes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (18 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 fromCannesSkopje
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 20 km
2 h 40 m
€104-151
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 20 km
1 h 20 m
€112-116
SKP · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 20 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
€164-246
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
€193-242
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BaselBSL
1 h 10 m
no fares
NCE · 20 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
€175-231
NCE · 20 km
1 h 35 m
€174-193
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 20 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
GenevaGVA
1 h 0 m
€65-145
NCE · 20 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
MedinaMED
5 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 146 km
3 h 40 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

MeasureCannesSkopje
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 airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre129 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCannesSkopje
City population74,350422,540
People per km²3,793739
Museums within 10 km1617
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3856
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.