VacationSelector

Paphos 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, 1 point apart

Paphos
46
match

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

Skopje
47
match

Wins on sights concentration and 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.

PaphosSkopje
Beaches & swimming. Paphos leads by 79 points.79
PaphosSkopje
Score790
Swim season months60
Beaches 10 km270
Coast distance1 km151 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Skopje leads by 15 points.15
PaphosSkopje
Score4459
Restaurants within 2 km of centre251396
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2239
Museums & heritage. Skopje leads by 5 points.5
PaphosSkopje
Score2227
Museums within 10 km813
Museums within 2 km of centre311
Share of museums within 2 km %3885
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Skopje leads by 16 points.16
PaphosSkopje
Score3046
Drinking venues within 4 km224492
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre161351
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7271
Nightclubs within 4 km1122
Nature & day trips. Skopje leads by 17 points.17
PaphosSkopje
Score2340
Protected land share 50 km %211
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %33100
Park area within 2 km27 hectares67 hectares
Good for families. Paphos leads by 2 points.2
PaphosSkopje
Score4240
Tourist attractions within 2 km3015
Park area within 2 km27 hectares67 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km00
Sights concentration. Skopje leads by 32 points.32
PaphosSkopje
Score1951
Notable places within 2 km1275
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 20 points.20
PaphosSkopje
Score7090
Price level global61.434.4
Daily budget€129€72
Year-round weather. Paphos leads by 19 points.19
PaphosSkopje
Score8667
Monthly daytime high17 °C to 30.8 °C4.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 98 mm29 mm to 58 mm
Dry months87
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
Paphos
17
17
19
21
25
28
30
31
29
27
23
19
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Sea temperature, °C
Paphos
17
17
17
18
21
24
27
28
27
25
22
19
Skopje
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Paphos
81
47
29
17
10
2
1
0
5
14
42
98
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Daylight, hours per day
Paphos
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Skopje
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Paphos
No sunshine record
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. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 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 fromPaphosSkopje
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
4 h 25 m
€125-167
PFO · 8 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 35 m
no fares
ECN · 107 km
1 h 20 m
€112-116
SKP · 16 km
ManchesterMAN
4 h 40 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
3 h 15 m
no fares
OHD · 107 km
ViennaVIE
3 h 0 m
€206-323
1 stop
PFO · 8 km
1 h 35 m
€174-193
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 45 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BaselBSL
3 h 40 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
MemmingenFMM
3 h 25 m
no fares
PFO · 8 km
2 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ZurichZRH
3 h 35 m
no fares
LCA · 110 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BerlinBER
3 h 35 m
€265-355
2 stops
PFO · 8 km
2 h 10 m
€99-114
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
4 h 5 m
€176-392
2 stops
PFO · 8 km
2 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 2026-09, 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

MeasurePaphosSkopje
Official languageTurkish, Greek, Modern GreekAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Denar (MKD)
SocketsG240 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation72 m251 m
Main airportPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre57 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePaphosSkopje
City population35,961422,540
People per km²1,987739
Museums within 10 km417
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre3656
Swim season, months above 21 °C6 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.