VacationSelector

Dublin or Skopje?

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

Your match

Dublin
✓ Best match
55
match

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

Skopje
47
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips 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.

DublinSkopje
Beaches & swimming. Dublin leads by 49 points.49
DublinSkopje
Score490
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km110
Coast distance3 km151 km
Water distance3 km
Places to eat. Dublin leads by 11 points.11
DublinSkopje
Score7059
Restaurants within 2 km of centre920396
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3739
Museums & heritage. Dublin leads by 28 points.28
DublinSkopje
Score5527
Museums within 10 km4713
Museums within 2 km of centre3711
Share of museums within 2 km %7985
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Dublin leads by 18 points.18
DublinSkopje
Score6446
Drinking venues within 4 km1,239492
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre934351
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7571
Nightclubs within 4 km4022
Nature & day trips. Skopje leads by 14 points.14
DublinSkopje
Score2640
Protected land share 50 km %311
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %62100
Park area within 2 km43 hectares67 hectares
Good for families. Dublin leads by 14 points.14
DublinSkopje
Score5440
Tourist attractions within 2 km4115
Park area within 2 km43 hectares67 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Dublin leads by 11 points.11
DublinSkopje
Score6251
Notable places within 2 km14175
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 33 points.33
DublinSkopje
Score5790
Price level global80.234.4
Daily budget€187€72
Year-round weather. Skopje leads by 13 points.13
DublinSkopje
Score5467
Monthly daytime high8.2 °C to 19.5 °C4.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall52 mm to 83 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
Dublin
8
9
10
12
15
18
20
19
17
14
10
8
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Sea temperature, °C
Dublin
9
8
8
9
11
13
15
15
15
13
12
11
Skopje
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dublin
62
52
52
55
58
65
62
74
61
78
83
72
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Daylight, hours per day
Dublin
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Skopje
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Dublin
2
3
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. Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 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 fromDublinSkopje
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
€33-43
DUB · 9 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
4 h 5 m
€183-239
DUB · 9 km
1 h 20 m
€112-116
SKP · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 55 m
€113-161
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 5 m
€188-230
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 35 m
€43-47
DUB · 9 km
2 h 40 m
€104-151
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
BaselBSL
2 h 0 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
€80-139
DUB · 9 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
OHD · 107 km
BerlinBER
2 h 15 m
€77-134
DUB · 9 km
2 h 10 m
€99-114
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
€60-123
1 stop
DUB · 9 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
MemmingenFMM
2 h 10 m
no fares
DUB · 9 km
2 h 0 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

MeasureDublinSkopje
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
Elevation20 m251 m
Main airportDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre201 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDublinSkopje
City population592,713422,540
People per km²5,154739
Museums within 10 km4017
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7456
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.