VacationSelector

Madrid or Skopje?

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

Your match

Madrid
✓ Best match
66
match

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

Skopje
47
match

Wins on value for money 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.

MadridSkopje
Beaches & swimming. Madrid and Skopje are level on 0.
MadridSkopje
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance305 km151 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Madrid leads by 24 points.24
MadridSkopje
Score8359
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,508396
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2839
Museums & heritage. Madrid leads by 48 points.48
MadridSkopje
Score7527
Museums within 10 km9713
Museums within 2 km of centre5911
Share of museums within 2 km %6185
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Madrid leads by 35 points.35
MadridSkopje
Score8146
Drinking venues within 4 km2,414492
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,498351
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6271
Nightclubs within 4 km34122
Nature & day trips. Madrid leads by 23 points.23
MadridSkopje
Score6340
Protected land share 50 km %1911
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km187 hectares67 hectares
Good for families. Madrid leads by 37 points.37
MadridSkopje
Score7740
Tourist attractions within 2 km6115
Park area within 2 km187 hectares67 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km30
Sights concentration. Madrid leads by 24 points.24
MadridSkopje
Score7551
Notable places within 2 km28875
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 19 points.19
MadridSkopje
Score7190
Price level global60.834.4
Daily budget€122€72
Year-round weather. Madrid leads by 5 points.5
MadridSkopje
Score7267
Monthly daytime high10 °C to 32.7 °C4.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall9 mm to 64 mm29 mm to 58 mm
Dry months77
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
Madrid
10
12
16
19
23
29
33
32
27
20
14
10
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Rainfall, mm
Madrid
32
34
35
46
49
20
9
10
24
64
53
42
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Daylight, hours per day
Madrid
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Skopje
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Madrid
5
5
7
8
9
11
12
11
9
6
5
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. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 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 fromMadridSkopje
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 50 m
€182-348
MAD · 14 km
1 h 20 m
€112-116
SKP · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 10 m
€52-105
MAD · 14 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€121-231
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 55 m
€95-123
MAD · 14 km
2 h 40 m
€104-151
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 5 m
€191-243
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BaselBSL
2 h 5 m
no fares
MAD · 14 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 15 m
€99-166
MAD · 14 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€53-86
MAD · 14 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 15 m
€116-130
1 stop
MAD · 14 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 15 m
€83-91
MAD · 14 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 2026-08 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

MeasureMadridSkopje
Official languageSpanishAlbanian, 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
Elevation663 m251 m
Main airportAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre236 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMadridSkopje
City population3,506,730422,540
People per km²5,801739
Museums within 10 km8817
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre10656

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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.