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Philadelphia or Skopje?

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

Your match

Philadelphia
✓ Best match
51
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

PhiladelphiaSkopje
Beaches & swimming. Philadelphia and Skopje are level on 0.
PhiladelphiaSkopje
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance13 km151 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Philadelphia leads by 18 points.18
PhiladelphiaSkopje
Score7759
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,714396
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3539
Museums & heritage. Philadelphia leads by 33 points.33
PhiladelphiaSkopje
Score6027
Museums within 10 km8913
Museums within 2 km of centre4811
Share of museums within 2 km %5485
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Philadelphia leads by 13 points.13
PhiladelphiaSkopje
Score5946
Drinking venues within 4 km930492
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre575351
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6271
Nightclubs within 4 km4122
Nature & day trips. Philadelphia leads by 9 points.9
PhiladelphiaSkopje
Score4940
Protected land share 50 km %1411
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %89100
Park area within 2 km75 hectares67 hectares
Good for families. Philadelphia leads by 13 points.13
PhiladelphiaSkopje
Score5340
Tourist attractions within 2 km1615
Park area within 2 km75 hectares67 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Philadelphia leads by 3 points.3
PhiladelphiaSkopje
Score5451
Notable places within 2 km8875
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 47 points.47
PhiladelphiaSkopje
Score4390
Price level global10034.4
Daily budget€72
Year-round weather. Skopje leads by 7 points.7
PhiladelphiaSkopje
Score6067
Monthly daytime high5.2 °C to 31 °C4.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall69 mm to 112 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
Philadelphia
5
7
12
18
24
28
31
30
26
20
13
8
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Rainfall, mm
Philadelphia
79
69
101
88
86
103
111
109
112
88
74
101
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Daylight, hours per day
Philadelphia
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
Philadelphia
4
5
6
7
9
9
8
9
7
7
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. Philadelphia: 1991-2020 normals, Philadelphia International Airport (11.3 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 fromPhiladelphiaSkopje
IstanbulIST, SAW
10 h 10 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 20 m
€112-116
SKP · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
8 h 5 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ZurichZRH
8 h 15 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ViennaVIE
8 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
1 h 35 m
€174-193
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
7 h 20 m
no fares
PHL · 11 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BerlinBER
8 h 15 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 10 m
€99-114
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 117 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BelgradeBEG
9 h 10 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
1 h 5 m
€98-122
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
MaltaMLA
9 h 20 m
no fares
JFK · 140 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
8 h 25 m
no fares
PHL · 11 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 2026-09, 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

MeasurePhiladelphiaSkopje
Official languageAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)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
Elevation12 m251 m
Main airportPhiladelphia International Airport (PHL)11 km from centre128 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasurePhiladelphiaSkopje
City population1,603,797422,540
People per km²4,339739
Museums within 10 km5417
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7556

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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.