VacationSelector

Skopje or York?

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

Your match

Skopje
✓ Best match
47
match

Wins on value for money and sights concentration with your weighting.

York
41
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

SkopjeYork
Beaches & swimming. Skopje and York are level on 0.
SkopjeYork
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance151 km50 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Skopje leads by 5 points.5
SkopjeYork
Score5954
Restaurants within 2 km of centre396361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3931
Museums & heritage. York leads by 19 points.19
SkopjeYork
Score2746
Museums within 10 km1318
Museums within 2 km of centre1116
Share of museums within 2 km %8589
Unesco sites within 50 km02
Nightlife. Skopje leads by 3 points.3
SkopjeYork
Score4643
Drinking venues within 4 km492450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre351353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7178
Nightclubs within 4 km2214
Nature & day trips. Skopje leads by 7 points.7
SkopjeYork
Score4033
Protected land share 50 km %1117
Landscape blanket share 50 km %016
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km67 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. York leads by 3 points.3
SkopjeYork
Score4043
Tourist attractions within 2 km1513
Park area within 2 km67 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km03
Sights concentration. Skopje leads by 12 points.12
SkopjeYork
Score5139
Notable places within 2 km7537
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Skopje leads by 36 points.36
SkopjeYork
Score9054
Price level global34.484.9
Daily budget€72
Year-round weather. Skopje leads by 11 points.11
SkopjeYork
Score6756
Monthly daytime high4.7 °C to 32.1 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 58 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months71
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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Skopje
5
9
14
19
24
29
32
32
26
20
13
6
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Rainfall, mm
Skopje
30
29
33
40
58
47
38
32
32
44
52
40
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Skopje
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Skopje
3
4
5
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
4
3
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

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). York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSkopjeYork
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€112-116
SKP · 16 km
3 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ViennaVIE
1 h 35 m
€174-193
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
BaselBSL
2 h 10 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
1 h 45 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ZurichZRH
2 h 5 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
AntalyaAYT
1 h 50 m
€155-164
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
4 h 20 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
BerlinBER
2 h 10 m
€99-114
1 stop
SKP · 16 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
WarsawWAW, WMI
2 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
MemmingenFMM
2 h 0 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
GenevaGVA
2 h 15 m
no fares
SKP · 16 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
LBA · 39 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

MeasureSkopjeYork
Official languageAlbanian, MacedonianEnglish
CurrencyDenar (MKD)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number112112 or 999
Elevation251 m25 m
Main airportSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre51 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureSkopjeYork
City population422,540208,400
People per km²739766
Museums within 10 km1724
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Distinct cuisines in the centre5654

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.