VacationSelector

Maastricht or Skopje?

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

Your match

Maastricht
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Skopje
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife 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.

MaastrichtSkopje
Beaches & swimming. Maastricht and Skopje are level on 0.
MaastrichtSkopje
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km60
Coast distance118 km151 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Skopje leads by 11 points.11
MaastrichtSkopje
Score4859
Restaurants within 2 km of centre338396
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2239
Museums & heritage. Maastricht leads by 26 points.26
MaastrichtSkopje
Score5327
Museums within 10 km2313
Museums within 2 km of centre1311
Share of museums within 2 km %5785
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Skopje leads by 16 points.16
MaastrichtSkopje
Score3046
Drinking venues within 4 km223492
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre182351
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8271
Nightclubs within 4 km1322
Nature & day trips. Skopje leads by 3 points.3
MaastrichtSkopje
Score3740
Protected land share 50 km %1911
Landscape blanket share 50 km %110
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km33 hectares67 hectares
Good for families. Maastricht leads by 6 points.6
MaastrichtSkopje
Score4640
Tourist attractions within 2 km1515
Park area within 2 km33 hectares67 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km50
Sights concentration. Skopje leads by 15 points.15
MaastrichtSkopje
Score3651
Notable places within 2 km3275
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 32 points.32
MaastrichtSkopje
Score5890
Price level global79.234.4
Daily budget€181€72
Year-round weather. Skopje leads by 8 points.8
MaastrichtSkopje
Score5967
Monthly daytime high5.7 °C to 23.8 °C4.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall41 mm to 84 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
Maastricht
6
7
11
15
19
22
24
24
20
15
10
6
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Rainfall, mm
Maastricht
64
58
55
41
58
69
73
84
58
65
62
74
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Daylight, hours per day
Maastricht
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Skopje
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Maastricht
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
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. Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 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 fromMaastrichtSkopje
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 20 m
€112-116
SKP · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 10 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BudapestBUD
1 h 55 m
€106-231
EIN · 70 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 85 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
1 h 55 m
€123-157
1 stop
EIN · 70 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 85 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 30 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
AntalyaAYT
3 h 40 m
no fares
MST · 9 km
1 h 50 m
€155-164
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 40 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 h 35 m
€174-193
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
no fares
EIN · 70 km
1 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureMaastrichtSkopje
Official languageDutchAlbanian, 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 number112 or 911112
Elevation49 m251 m
Main airportMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMaastrichtSkopje
City population120,227422,540
People per km²2,000739
Museums within 10 km2117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre3356

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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.