VacationSelector

Montpellier 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

Montpellier
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Skopje
47
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration 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.

MontpellierSkopje
Beaches & swimming. Montpellier leads by 32 points.32
MontpellierSkopje
Score320
Swim season months20
Beaches 10 km80
Coast distance9 km151 km
Water distance9 km—
Places to eat. Montpellier leads by 6 points.6
MontpellierSkopje
Score6559
Restaurants within 2 km of centre737396
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3439
Museums & heritage. Skopje leads by 1 points.1
MontpellierSkopje
Score2627
Museums within 10 km1413
Museums within 2 km of centre311
Share of museums within 2 km %2185
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Skopje leads by 8 points.8
MontpellierSkopje
Score3846
Drinking venues within 4 km318492
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265351
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8371
Nightclubs within 4 km2522
Nature & day trips. Montpellier leads by 3 points.3
MontpellierSkopje
Score4340
Protected land share 50 km %1511
Landscape blanket share 50 km %100
Land share of disc %70100
Park area within 2 km55 hectares67 hectares
Good for families. Montpellier leads by 4 points.4
MontpellierSkopje
Score4440
Tourist attractions within 2 km815
Park area within 2 km55 hectares67 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km70
Sights concentration. Skopje leads by 13 points.13
MontpellierSkopje
Score3851
Notable places within 2 km3575
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 28 points.28
MontpellierSkopje
Score6290
Price level global73.734.4
Daily budget€160€72
Year-round weather. Montpellier leads by 7 points.7
MontpellierSkopje
Score7467
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 29.6 °C4.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall17 mm to 93 mm29 mm to 58 mm
Dry months57
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
Montpellier
12
13
16
19
23
27
30
29
25
21
16
13
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Sea temperature, °C
Montpellier
12
12
12
14
16
19
21
22
20
18
16
14
Skopje
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Montpellier
56
35
39
56
46
33
17
36
88
93
78
59
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Daylight, hours per day
Montpellier
9
11
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
Montpellier
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
10
8
6
5
5
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. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 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 fromMontpellierSkopje
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 40 m
€104-151
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 5 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
1 h 20 m
€112-116
SKP · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BaselBSL
1 h 15 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
MadridMAD
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 45 m
no fares
MPL · 8 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
MunichMUC
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
PRN · 72 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
no fares
FNI · 46 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 50 m
€123-230
1 stop
MRS · 109 km
1 h 35 m
€174-193
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
MedinaMED
5 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 109 km
3 h 40 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

MeasureMontpellierSkopje
Official languageFrenchAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Denar (MKD)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation7 m251 m
Main airportMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre36 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontpellierSkopje
City population310,240422,540
People per km²5,452739
Museums within 10 km1417
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre6556
Swim season, months above 21 °C2 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.