VacationSelector

La Spezia or Skopje?

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

Your match

La Spezia
43
match

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

Skopje
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on sights concentration and places to eat with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

La SpeziaSkopje
Beaches & swimming. La Spezia leads by 73 points.73
La SpeziaSkopje
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km320
Coast distance0 km151 km
Water distance0 km—
Places to eat. Skopje leads by 28 points.28
La SpeziaSkopje
Score3159
Restaurants within 2 km of centre235396
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1139
Museums & heritage. La Spezia leads by 15 points.15
La SpeziaSkopje
Score4227
Museums within 10 km1513
Museums within 2 km of centre1011
Share of museums within 2 km %6785
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Skopje leads by 22 points.22
La SpeziaSkopje
Score2446
Drinking venues within 4 km208492
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre176351
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8571
Nightclubs within 4 km122
Nature & day trips. La Spezia leads by 12 points.12
La SpeziaSkopje
Score5240
Protected land share 50 km %1311
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %51100
Park area within 2 km23 hectares67 hectares
Good for families. Skopje leads by 20 points.20
La SpeziaSkopje
Score2040
Tourist attractions within 2 km315
Park area within 2 km23 hectares67 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Skopje leads by 44 points.44
La SpeziaSkopje
Score751
Notable places within 2 km675
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 22 points.22
La SpeziaSkopje
Score6890
Price level global64.934.4
Daily budget€155€72
Year-round weather. La Spezia leads by 3 points.3
La SpeziaSkopje
Score7067
Monthly daytime high11.4 °C to 30.3 °C4.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm29 mm to 58 mm
Dry months27
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
La Spezia
11
13
16
18
23
27
30
30
26
21
16
12
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Sea temperature, °C
La Spezia
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
20
18
16
Skopje
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
La Spezia
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Daylight, hours per day
La Spezia
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Skopje
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
La Spezia
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 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 fromLa SpeziaSkopje
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€48-62
PSA · 65 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 125 km
1 h 20 m
€112-116
SKP · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 40 m
€104-151
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
GOA · 86 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 25 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BerlinBER
1 h 50 m
€119-200
1 stop
PSA · 65 km
2 h 10 m
€99-114
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 115 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
EindhovenEIN
1 h 45 m
no fares
PSA · 65 km
2 h 35 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 2026-09 to 2026-09, 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

MeasureLa SpeziaSkopje
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
Elevation3 m251 m
Main airportPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre81 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa SpeziaSkopje
City population92,119422,540
People per km²1,792739
Museums within 10 km1217
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2256
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.