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Rocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay, Huatulco
HuatulcoRocks and beach in Tangolunda Bay
The Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square, Skopje
SkopjeThe Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square

Photos: Huatulco by Gzzz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Skopje by George M. Groutas, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Huatulco or Skopje?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Huatulco for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Huatulco’s own page.

Choose Skopje for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Skopje’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Huatulco 86, Skopje 6: Huatulco leads by 80 points.
Food & drink. Huatulco 44, Skopje 52: Skopje leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Huatulco 15, Skopje 56: Skopje leads by 41 points.
Nightlife. Huatulco 24, Skopje 42: Skopje leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Huatulco 76, Skopje 70: Huatulco leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Huatulco 40, Skopje 56: Skopje leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Huatulco 56, Skopje 35: Huatulco leads by 21 points.
Getting around. Huatulco 33, Skopje 45: Skopje leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Huatulco 20, Skopje 40: Skopje leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Huatulco 62, Skopje 80: Skopje leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Huatulco 9, Skopje 38: Skopje leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Huatulco 52, Skopje 27: Huatulco leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Huatulco and Skopje.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Huatulco
43match

Wins on beaches and wellness with your weighting.

Skopje
Best match
46match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Huatulco in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
156 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Skopje in July

32 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Huatulco's temperatures are measured 42 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Huatulco's station stands 177 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Huatulco has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Skopje has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Skopje's sunshine is measured 68 km from the centre, at Stip.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Huatulco: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (42.2 km from centre). Skopje: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Skopje-Petrovec (18.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureHuatulcoSkopje
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Denar (MKD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation220 m251 m
Main airportBahías de Huatulco International Airport (HUX)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureHuatulcoSkopje
City population7,409422,540
People per km²-739
Museums within 10 km017
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.