VacationSelector

Skopje or Venice?

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

Your match

Skopje
47
match

Wins on nature & day trips and value for money with your weighting.

Venice
✓ Best match
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage 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.

SkopjeVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 69 points.69
SkopjeVenice
Score069
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km020
Coast distance151 km4 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Skopje leads by 14 points.14
SkopjeVenice
Score5945
Restaurants within 2 km of centre396750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3910
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 45 points.45
SkopjeVenice
Score2772
Museums within 10 km1357
Museums within 2 km of centre1145
Share of museums within 2 km %8579
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Skopje leads by 11 points.11
SkopjeVenice
Score4635
Drinking venues within 4 km492342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre351306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7189
Nightclubs within 4 km223
Nature & day trips. Skopje leads by 23 points.23
SkopjeVenice
Score4017
Protected land share 50 km %114
Landscape blanket share 50 km %00
Land share of disc %10070
Park area within 2 km67 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Venice leads by 17 points.17
SkopjeVenice
Score4057
Tourist attractions within 2 km1572
Park area within 2 km67 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 32 points.32
SkopjeVenice
Score5183
Notable places within 2 km75464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 22 points.22
SkopjeVenice
Score9068
Price level global34.464.9
Daily budget€72€155
Year-round weather. Skopje leads by 1 points.1
SkopjeVenice
Score6766
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 32.1 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 58 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months72
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
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Skopje
No coastline within reach
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Skopje
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Skopje
3
4
5
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
3
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Skopje: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990, rainfall 1961-1990) normals, Skopje-Petrovec (18.3 km from centre). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSkopjeVenice
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€112-116
SKP · 16 km
2 h 20 m
€148-150
VCE · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 40 m
€104-151
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
1 h 20 m
€136-186
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€174-193
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
1 h 10 m
€65-121
VCE · 7 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 5 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
BaselBSL
2 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
3 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 35 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
1 h 40 m
€44-65
TSF · 26 km
BerlinBER
2 h 10 m
€99-114
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
1 h 35 m
€99-129
VCE · 7 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

MeasureSkopjeVenice
Official languageAlbanian, MacedonianItalian
CurrencyDenar (MKD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number112112
Elevation251 m2 m
Main airportSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSkopjeVenice
City population422,540250,369
People per km²739602
Museums within 10 km1752
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre5646
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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. 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.