VacationSelector

Genoa or Skopje?

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

Your match

Genoa
✓ Best match
56
match

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

Skopje
47
match

Wins on value for money and places to eat 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.

GenoaSkopje
Beaches & swimming. Genoa leads by 73 points.73
GenoaSkopje
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km370
Coast distance0 km151 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Skopje leads by 9 points.9
GenoaSkopje
Score5059
Restaurants within 2 km of centre691396
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1439
Museums & heritage. Genoa leads by 28 points.28
GenoaSkopje
Score5527
Museums within 10 km4713
Museums within 2 km of centre3311
Share of museums within 2 km %7085
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Genoa leads by 4 points.4
GenoaSkopje
Score5046
Drinking venues within 4 km637492
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre419351
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6671
Nightclubs within 4 km1722
Nature & day trips. Skopje leads by 5 points.5
GenoaSkopje
Score3540
Protected land share 50 km %811
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %61100
Park area within 2 km29 hectares67 hectares
Good for families. Skopje leads by 2 points.2
GenoaSkopje
Score3840
Tourist attractions within 2 km2115
Park area within 2 km29 hectares67 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Genoa leads by 10 points.10
GenoaSkopje
Score6151
Notable places within 2 km13075
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 22 points.22
GenoaSkopje
Score6890
Price level global64.934.4
Daily budget€155€72
Year-round weather. Genoa leads by 6 points.6
GenoaSkopje
Score7367
Monthly daytime high11.7 °C to 27.9 °C4.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall12 mm to 122 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
Genoa
12
12
15
18
21
25
27
28
25
20
16
13
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Sea temperature, °C
Genoa
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Skopje
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Genoa
58
41
47
67
40
26
12
20
72
101
122
89
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Daylight, hours per day
Genoa
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Skopje
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Genoa
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
10
7
6
4
4
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. Genoa: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (6.7 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 fromGenoaSkopje
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€140-309
MXP · 137 km
1 h 20 m
€112-116
SKP · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 15 m
€67-76
LIN · 119 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
MadridMAD
2 h 0 m
€63-91
MXP · 137 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 25 m
€65-131
MXP · 137 km
1 h 35 m
€174-193
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
ZurichZRH
55 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
AthensATH
2 h 25 m
€91-99
MXP · 137 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 40 m
€39-54
MXP · 137 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
2 h 0 m
€93-109
MXP · 137 km
2 h 35 m
€140-155
2 stops
SKP · 16 km
MemmingenFMM
1 h 15 m
no fares
PSA · 142 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 5 m
no fares
MXP · 137 km
1 h 50 m
€155-164
1 stop
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

MeasureGenoaSkopje
Official languageItalianAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Denar (MKD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation20 m251 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)7 km from centre23 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureGenoaSkopje
City population558,745422,540
People per km²2,325739
Museums within 10 km5117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4156
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.