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Angkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway, Siem Reap
Siem ReapAngkor Wat beyond the palms of the causeway
The Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square, Skopje
SkopjeThe Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square

Photos: Siem Reap by allPhoto Bangkok, Pexels License; Skopje by George M. Groutas, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Siem Reap 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 Siem Reap for

  • wellness
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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

Choose Skopje for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around
  • food and drink

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. Siem Reap 5, Skopje 6: Skopje leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Siem Reap 45, Skopje 52: Skopje leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Siem Reap 88, Skopje 56: Siem Reap leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Siem Reap and Skopje are level on 42.
Nature & outdoors. Siem Reap 40, Skopje 70: Skopje leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Siem Reap 55, Skopje 56: Skopje leads by 1 points.
Good for families. Siem Reap and Skopje are level on 35.
Getting around. Siem Reap 30, Skopje 45: Skopje leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Siem Reap 38, Skopje 40: Skopje leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Siem Reap 88, Skopje 80: Siem Reap leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Siem Reap 32, Skopje 38: Skopje leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Siem Reap 60, Skopje 27: Siem Reap leads by 33 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Siem Reap and Skopje.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Siem Reap
47match

Wins on wellness and culture and sights with your weighting.

Skopje
46match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Siem Reap in July

30 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 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

Siem Reap has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

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. Siem Reap: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Skopje: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Skopje-Petrovec (18.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSiem ReapSkopje
Official languageKhmerAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyRiel (KHR)Denar (MKD)
SocketsACG230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 117, ambulance 119, fire 118112
Elevation18 m251 m
Main airportSiem Reap-Angkor International Airport (SAI)39 km from centre14 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year21 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSiem ReapSkopje
City population147,866422,540
People per km²-739
Museums within 10 km617
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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). 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.