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The Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square, Skopje
SkopjeThe Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square
The red cable car above Wellington, Wellington
WellingtonThe red cable car above Wellington

Photos: Skopje by George M. Groutas, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Wellington by lumoplank, CC0.

Skopje or Wellington?

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
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Wellington for

  • beaches
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Wellington’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, Wellington 33: Wellington leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Skopje 52, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Skopje 56, Wellington 44: Skopje leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Skopje 42, Wellington 45: Wellington leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Skopje 70, Wellington 78: Wellington leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Skopje 56, Wellington 40: Skopje leads by 16 points.
Good for families. Skopje 35, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Skopje 45, Wellington 68: Wellington leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Skopje 40, Wellington 42: Wellington leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Skopje 80, Wellington 33: Skopje leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Skopje 38, Wellington 56: Wellington leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Skopje 27, Wellington 30: Wellington leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Skopje and Wellington.

Your match

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

Skopje
46match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Wellington
Best match
49match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Wellington in July

12 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
111 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °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.

Wellington's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Paraparaumu Aerodrome.

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). Wellington: 1961-1990 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Wellington Aerodrome Aws (5.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSkopjeWellington
Official languageAlbanian, MacedonianEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencyDenar (MKD)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency number112111
Elevation251 m0 m
Main airportSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsWellington International Airport (WLG)5 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureSkopjeWellington
City population422,540216,200
People per km²739487
Museums within 10 km1712
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.