VacationSelector

San Jose or Skopje?

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

Your match

San Jose
39
match

Wins on nature & day trips and year-round weather with your weighting.

Skopje
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

San JoseSkopje
Beaches & swimming. San Jose leads by 8 points.8
San JoseSkopje
Score80
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance14 km151 km
Water distance14 km
Places to eat. Skopje leads by 18 points.18
San JoseSkopje
Score4159
Restaurants within 2 km of centre313396
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1639
Museums & heritage. Skopje leads by 1 points.1
San JoseSkopje
Score2627
Museums within 10 km2013
Museums within 2 km of centre911
Share of museums within 2 km %4585
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Skopje leads by 15 points.15
San JoseSkopje
Score3146
Drinking venues within 4 km231492
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre88351
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3871
Nightclubs within 4 km1622
Nature & day trips. San Jose leads by 30 points.30
San JoseSkopje
Score7040
Protected land share 50 km %2611
Landscape blanket share 50 km %20
Land share of disc %91100
Park area within 2 km101 hectares67 hectares
Good for families. Skopje leads by 7 points.7
San JoseSkopje
Score3340
Tourist attractions within 2 km215
Park area within 2 km101 hectares67 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km20
Sights concentration. Skopje leads by 37 points.37
San JoseSkopje
Score1451
Notable places within 2 km975
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 47 points.47
San JoseSkopje
Score4390
Price level global10034.4
Daily budget€72
Year-round weather. San Jose leads by 18 points.18
San JoseSkopje
Score8567
Monthly daytime high15.4 °C to 26.8 °C4.7 °C to 32.1 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 78 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
San Jose
15
17
19
21
23
26
27
27
27
24
19
17
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Sea temperature, °C
San Jose
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
13
Skopje
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
San Jose
50
78
51
25
9
2
0
0
2
15
33
62
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Daylight, hours per day
San Jose
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Skopje
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
San Jose
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. San Jose: 1991-2020 normals, San Jose / Santa Clara Trailer Village (8.2 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 fromSan JoseSkopje
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 20 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
1 h 20 m
€112-116
SKP · 16 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ZurichZRH
11 h 40 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 40 m
€104-151
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
CopenhagenCPH
11 h 0 m
no fares
SFO · 57 km
2 h 35 m
€140-155
2 stops
SKP · 16 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
11 h 45 m
no fares
SFO · 57 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

MeasureSan JoseSkopje
Official languageAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Denar (MKD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation25 m251 m
Main airportMineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)8 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSan JoseSkopje
City population1,013,240422,540
People per km²2,167739
Museums within 10 km1917
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3056
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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). 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.