VacationSelector

Ljubljana or Skopje?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Ljubljana
47
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Skopje
47
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

LjubljanaSkopje
Beaches & swimming. Ljubljana and Skopje are level on 0.
LjubljanaSkopje
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km100
Coast distance72 km151 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Skopje leads by 4 points.4
LjubljanaSkopje
Score5559
Restaurants within 2 km of centre292396
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4039
Museums & heritage. Ljubljana leads by 28 points.28
LjubljanaSkopje
Score5527
Museums within 10 km2613
Museums within 2 km of centre2311
Share of museums within 2 km %8885
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Skopje leads by 1 points.1
LjubljanaSkopje
Score4546
Drinking venues within 4 km458492
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284351
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6271
Nightclubs within 4 km2422
Nature & day trips. Ljubljana and Skopje are level on 40.
LjubljanaSkopje
Score4040
Protected land share 50 km %1311
Landscape blanket share 50 km %50
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km75 hectares67 hectares
Good for families. Skopje leads by 2 points.2
LjubljanaSkopje
Score3840
Tourist attractions within 2 km1215
Park area within 2 km75 hectares67 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Ljubljana leads by 7 points.7
LjubljanaSkopje
Score5851
Notable places within 2 km10975
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 18 points.18
LjubljanaSkopje
Score7290
Price level global59.634.4
Daily budget€131€72
Year-round weather. Skopje leads by 11 points.11
LjubljanaSkopje
Score5667
Monthly daytime high4.1 °C to 27.9 °C4.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall67 mm to 159 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
Ljubljana
4
7
12
17
22
26
28
28
22
16
10
4
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Rainfall, mm
Ljubljana
67
85
82
96
114
126
121
124
159
150
138
105
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Daylight, hours per day
Ljubljana
9
10
12
14
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
Ljubljana
2
4
5
6
8
9
9
8
6
4
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. Ljubljana: 1991-2020 normals, Ljubljana / Bezigrad (1.9 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 fromLjubljanaSkopje
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 10 m
€188-190
LJU · 20 km
1 h 20 m
€112-116
SKP · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 25 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
no fares
TRS · 84 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BaselBSL
1 h 30 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZAG · 126 km
1 h 35 m
€174-193
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
no fares
LJU · 20 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 45 m
€184-197
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BelgradeBEG
1 h 15 m
€180-215
LJU · 20 km
1 h 5 m
€98-122
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 45 m
€139-178
1 stop
LJU · 20 km
2 h 40 m
€104-151
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

MeasureLjubljanaSkopje
Official languageSloveneAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Denar (MKD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation309 m251 m
Main airportLjubljana Jože Pučnik Airport (LJU)20 km from centre28 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLjubljanaSkopje
City population284,293422,540
People per km²1,736739
Museums within 10 km1417
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre6356

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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. 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.