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The beach and the bay with the mountains behind, Nuevo Vallarta
Nuevo VallartaThe beach and the bay with the mountains behind
The Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square, Skopje
SkopjeThe Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square

Photos: Nuevo Vallarta by Harpqueen, Public domain; Skopje by George M. Groutas, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Nuevo Vallarta or Skopje?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Nuevo Vallarta for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Nuevo Vallarta’s own page.

Choose Skopje for

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Skopje’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Nuevo Vallarta 84, Skopje 6: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Nuevo Vallarta 40, Skopje 52: Skopje leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Nuevo Vallarta 6, Skopje 56: Skopje leads by 50 points.
Nightlife. Nuevo Vallarta 16, Skopje 42: Skopje leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Nuevo Vallarta 75, Skopje 70: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Nuevo Vallarta 58, Skopje 56: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Nuevo Vallarta 73, Skopje 35: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 38 points.
Getting around. Nuevo Vallarta 25, Skopje 45: Skopje leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Nuevo Vallarta 22, Skopje 40: Skopje leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Nuevo Vallarta 45, Skopje 80: Skopje leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Nuevo Vallarta 18, Skopje 38: Skopje leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Nuevo Vallarta 55, Skopje 27: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Nuevo Vallarta and Skopje.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Nuevo Vallarta
43match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

Skopje
Best match
46match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Nuevo Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
206 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Skopje in July

32 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Nuevo Vallarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Skopje has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Skopje's sunshine is measured 68 km from the centre, at Stip.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Nuevo Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km. Skopje: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Skopje-Petrovec (18.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureNuevo VallartaSkopje
Official languageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec MayaAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyMexican Peso (MXN)Denar (MKD)
SocketsAB127 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-6UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3 m251 m
Main airportPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)4 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year9 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureNuevo VallartaSkopje
City population1,301422,540
People per km²-739
Museums within 10 km017
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.