VacationSelector

Rome or Skopje?

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

Your match

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Skopje
47
match

Wins on 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.

RomeSkopje
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 33 points.33
RomeSkopje
Score330
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance24 km151 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Rome leads by 1 points.1
RomeSkopje
Score6059
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,241396
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1039
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 57 points.57
RomeSkopje
Score8427
Museums within 10 km16113
Museums within 2 km of centre7911
Share of museums within 2 km %4985
Unesco sites within 50 km70
Nightlife. Rome leads by 28 points.28
RomeSkopje
Score7446
Drinking venues within 4 km2,022492
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre912351
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4571
Nightclubs within 4 km8522
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 30 points.30
RomeSkopje
Score7040
Protected land share 50 km %1911
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %78100
Park area within 2 km172 hectares67 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 46 points.46
RomeSkopje
Score8640
Tourist attractions within 2 km12615
Park area within 2 km172 hectares67 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km40
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 48 points.48
RomeSkopje
Score9951
Notable places within 2 km1,12575
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 22 points.22
RomeSkopje
Score6890
Price level global64.934.4
Daily budget€155€72
Year-round weather. Rome leads by 4 points.4
RomeSkopje
Score7167
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 31.4 °C4.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 114 mm29 mm to 58 mm
Dry months37
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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Sea temperature, °C
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Skopje
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Daylight, hours per day
Rome
10
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
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4
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. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 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 fromRomeSkopje
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 15 m
€136-291
FCO · 23 km
1 h 20 m
€112-116
SKP · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
2 h 40 m
€104-151
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 50 m
€96-147
FCO · 23 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 30 m
€64-109
FCO · 23 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€66-127
FCO · 23 km
1 h 35 m
€174-193
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
3 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BaselBSL
1 h 35 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
PalermoPMO
1 h 10 m
€38-50
FCO · 23 km
1 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 2026-08 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

MeasureRomeSkopje
Official languageItalianAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Denar (MKD)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation21 m251 m
Main airportRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureRomeSkopje
City population2,748,109422,540
People per km²2,135739
Museums within 10 km17717
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km70
Distinct cuisines in the centre6556
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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.