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The Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square, Skopje
SkopjeThe Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square
Minato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock, Yokohama
YokohamaMinato Mirai and the Cosmo Clock

Photos: Skopje by George M. Groutas, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Yokohama by Yoshio Kohara, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Skopje or Yokohama?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Yokohama for

  • families
  • getting around
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Yokohama’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, Yokohama 46: Yokohama leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Skopje 52, Yokohama 72: Yokohama leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Skopje 56, Yokohama 55: Skopje leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Skopje 42, Yokohama 44: Yokohama leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Skopje 70, Yokohama 66: Skopje leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Skopje 56, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Skopje 35, Yokohama 86: Yokohama leads by 51 points.
Getting around. Skopje 45, Yokohama 87: Yokohama leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Skopje 40, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Skopje 80, Yokohama 55: Skopje leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Skopje 38, Yokohama 56: Yokohama leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Skopje 27, Yokohama 60: Yokohama leads by 33 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Skopje and Yokohama.

Your match

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

Skopje
46match

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

Yokohama
Best match
64match

Wins on families 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.

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

Yokohama in July

28 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 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.

Yokohama's sunshine is measured 29 km from the centre, at Tokyo.

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). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSkopjeYokohama
Official languageAlbanian, MacedonianJapanese
CurrencyDenar (MKD)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+9
Emergency number112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation251 m24 m
Main airportSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre52 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSkopjeYokohama
City population422,5403,757,630
People per km²7398,585
Museums within 10 km1738
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 months

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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.