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The Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square, Skopje
SkopjeThe Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Skopje by George M. Groutas, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Skopje or Valparaiso?

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 Skopje for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • shopping

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’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. Skopje 6, Valparaiso 36: Valparaiso leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Skopje 52, Valparaiso 50: Skopje leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Skopje 56, Valparaiso 62: Valparaiso leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Skopje 42, Valparaiso 56: Valparaiso leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Skopje 70, Valparaiso 60: Skopje leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Skopje 56, Valparaiso 63: Valparaiso leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Skopje 35, Valparaiso 33: Skopje leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Skopje 45, Valparaiso 44: Skopje leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Skopje 40, Valparaiso 30: Skopje leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Skopje 80, Valparaiso 60: Skopje leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Skopje and Valparaiso are level on 38.
Wellness & relaxation. Skopje 27, Valparaiso 18: Skopje leads by 9 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Skopje and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Skopje
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Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Valparaiso
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Wins on beaches and nightlife with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Skopje in July

32 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

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.

Valparaiso 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Skopje: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Skopje-Petrovec (18.3 km from centre). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSkopjeValparaiso
Official languageAlbanian, MacedonianSpanish
CurrencyDenar (MKD)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number112Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation251 m21 m
Main airportSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSkopjeValparaiso
City population422,540296,655
People per km²7396,180
Museums within 10 km1717
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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). 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.