VacationSelector

Montreal 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

Montreal
47
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

MontrealSkopje
Beaches & swimming. Montreal and Skopje are level on 0.
MontrealSkopje
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km70
Coast distance276 km151 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Montreal leads by 15 points.15
MontrealSkopje
Score7459
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,016396
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4939
Museums & heritage. Montreal leads by 10 points.10
MontrealSkopje
Score3727
Museums within 10 km3913
Museums within 2 km of centre1911
Share of museums within 2 km %4985
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Montreal leads by 16 points.16
MontrealSkopje
Score6246
Drinking venues within 4 km1,012492
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre493351
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4971
Nightclubs within 4 km7422
Nature & day trips. Skopje leads by 4 points.4
MontrealSkopje
Score3640
Protected land share 50 km %211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %100100
Park area within 2 km189 hectares67 hectares
Good for families. Montreal leads by 10 points.10
MontrealSkopje
Score5040
Tourist attractions within 2 km1115
Park area within 2 km189 hectares67 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Montreal leads by 5 points.5
MontrealSkopje
Score5651
Notable places within 2 km9875
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 36 points.36
MontrealSkopje
Score5490
Price level global8434.4
Daily budget€72
Year-round weather. Skopje leads by 17 points.17
MontrealSkopje
Score5067
Monthly daytime high-3.5 °C to 26.5 °C4.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 121 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
Montreal
-3
-3
3
11
19
24
27
26
22
13
6
-1
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Rainfall, mm
Montreal
84
69
89
121
89
107
98
109
88
100
85
94
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Daylight, hours per day
Montreal
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
Montreal
3
4
6
6
8
8
9
8
7
4
3
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. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 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 fromMontrealSkopje
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 45 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 20 m
€112-116
SKP · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
7 h 35 m
€591-764
2 stops
YUL · 16 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BaselBSL
7 h 40 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ZurichZRH
7 h 45 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
€308-372
YUL · 16 km
2 h 40 m
€104-151
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€447-599
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
7 h 10 m
€506-644
1 stop
YUL · 16 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ViennaVIE
8 h 15 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
1 h 35 m
€174-193
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
BerlinBER
7 h 45 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 10 m
€99-114
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
7 h 50 m
no fares
YUL · 16 km
2 h 0 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

MeasureMontrealSkopje
Official languageFrench, EnglishAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyCanadian Dollar (CAD)Denar (MKD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation31 m251 m
Main airportMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre164 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureMontrealSkopje
City population1,895,211422,540
People per km²3,806739
Museums within 10 km3717
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre9756

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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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.

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.