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Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona
The Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square, Skopje
SkopjeThe Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square

Photos: Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Skopje by George M. Groutas, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Sedona 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 Sedona for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

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

Choose Skopje for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • 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. Sedona 16, Skopje 6: Sedona leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Sedona 33, Skopje 52: Skopje leads by 19 points.
Culture & sights. Sedona 20, Skopje 56: Skopje leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Sedona 8, Skopje 42: Skopje leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sedona 93, Skopje 70: Sedona leads by 23 points.
Day trips. Sedona 55, Skopje 56: Skopje leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Sedona 42, Skopje 35: Sedona leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Sedona 22, Skopje 45: Skopje leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Sedona 34, Skopje 40: Skopje leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Sedona 18, Skopje 80: Skopje leads by 62 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sedona 13, Skopje 38: Skopje leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sedona 82, Skopje 27: Sedona leads by 55 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sedona and Skopje.

Your match

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

Sedona
36match

Wins on wellness and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Skopje
Best match
46match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
14 hdaylight a day

Skopje in July

32 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
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

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona 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 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. Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre). Skopje: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Skopje-Petrovec (18.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSedonaSkopje
Official language-Albanian, Macedonian
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Denar (MKD)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation1,319 m251 m
Main airportPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSedonaSkopje
City population9,684422,540
People per km²195739
Museums within 10 km017
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. 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.

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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.