VacationSelector

Cork or Skopje?

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

Your match

Cork
38
match

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

Skopje
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on value for money 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.

CorkSkopje
Beaches & swimming. Cork leads by 28 points.28
CorkSkopje
Score280
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance3 km151 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Skopje leads by 9 points.9
CorkSkopje
Score5059
Restaurants within 2 km of centre224396
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3539
Museums & heritage. Skopje leads by 4 points.4
CorkSkopje
Score2327
Museums within 10 km1013
Museums within 2 km of centre811
Share of museums within 2 km %8085
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Skopje leads by 8 points.8
CorkSkopje
Score3846
Drinking venues within 4 km361492
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre292351
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8171
Nightclubs within 4 km922
Nature & day trips. Cork leads by 12 points.12
CorkSkopje
Score5240
Protected land share 50 km %11
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %74100
Park area within 2 km48 hectares67 hectares
Good for families. Skopje leads by 13 points.13
CorkSkopje
Score2740
Tourist attractions within 2 km715
Park area within 2 km48 hectares67 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Skopje leads by 29 points.29
CorkSkopje
Score2251
Notable places within 2 km1475
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 33 points.33
CorkSkopje
Score5790
Price level global80.234.4
Daily budget€187€72
Year-round weather. Skopje leads by 18 points.18
CorkSkopje
Score4967
Monthly daytime high8.3 °C to 18.6 °C4.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall78 mm to 140 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
Cork
8
9
10
12
15
17
19
19
17
13
10
9
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Sea temperature, °C
Cork
10
9
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
14
12
11
Skopje
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Cork
132
100
92
85
78
88
86
98
91
140
125
134
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Daylight, hours per day
Cork
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Skopje
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Cork
2
2
4
5
6
6
5
5
4
3
2
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. Cork: 1991-2020 normals, Cork Airport (5.6 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 fromCorkSkopje
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 10 m
no fares
KIR · 78 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
OHD · 107 km
ManchesterMAN
1 h 10 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
OHD · 107 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 40 m
€104-151
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
IzmirADB
4 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 20 m
no fares
ORK · 7 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BudapestBUD
3 h 5 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
WroclawWRO
2 h 45 m
no fares
SNN · 94 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
OHD · 107 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

MeasureCorkSkopje
Official languageEnglish, IrishAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Denar (MKD)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation0 m251 m
Main airportCork International Airport (ORK)7 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCorkSkopje
City population222,333422,540
People per km²5,961739
Museums within 10 km517
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre4956
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.