VacationSelector

Gdansk or Skopje?

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

Your match

Gdansk
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and good for families with your weighting.

Skopje
47
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

GdanskSkopje
Beaches & swimming. Gdansk leads by 55 points.55
GdanskSkopje
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km200
Coast distance1 km151 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Skopje leads by 7 points.7
GdanskSkopje
Score5259
Restaurants within 2 km of centre348396
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2839
Museums & heritage. Gdansk leads by 30 points.30
GdanskSkopje
Score5727
Museums within 10 km4313
Museums within 2 km of centre2811
Share of museums within 2 km %6585
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Skopje leads by 10 points.10
GdanskSkopje
Score3646
Drinking venues within 4 km269492
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre203351
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7571
Nightclubs within 4 km3022
Nature & day trips. Gdansk leads by 5 points.5
GdanskSkopje
Score4540
Protected land share 50 km %1211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %30
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km61 hectares67 hectares
Good for families. Gdansk leads by 35 points.35
GdanskSkopje
Score7540
Tourist attractions within 2 km10815
Park area within 2 km61 hectares67 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Gdansk leads by 1 points.1
GdanskSkopje
Score5251
Notable places within 2 km7675
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 11 points.11
GdanskSkopje
Score7990
Price level global4934.4
Daily budget€133€72
Year-round weather. Skopje leads by 15 points.15
GdanskSkopje
Score5267
Monthly daytime high0.7 °C to 22.1 °C4.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall37 mm to 87 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
Gdansk
1
2
6
12
17
20
22
22
18
12
7
3
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Sea temperature, °C
Gdansk
4
3
3
5
10
14
18
19
17
13
9
6
Skopje
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Gdansk
47
37
40
37
59
68
87
78
74
71
54
55
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Daylight, hours per day
Gdansk
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Skopje
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Gdansk
1
2
5
7
8
8
8
8
6
4
1
1
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. Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 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 fromGdanskSkopje
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
OsloOSL, TRF
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
1 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 35 m
€140-155
2 stops
SKP · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 40 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
DortmundDTM
1 h 35 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
StockholmARN, BMA, NYO, VST
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 0 m
€51-126
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 10 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
1 h 50 m
€155-164
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 0 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
HamburgHAM, XFW, LBC
1 h 20 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
2 h 30 m
€126-184
SKP · 16 km
HurghadaHRG
4 h 30 m
no fares
GDN · 13 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
PRN · 72 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

MeasureGdanskSkopje
Official languagePolishAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyZloty (PLN)Denar (MKD)
SocketsCE50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation11 m251 m
Main airportGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre65 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGdanskSkopje
City population487,834422,540
People per km²714739
Museums within 10 km3717
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre4856
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). 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. 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.