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Kumanovo

Kumanovo is the second-largest city in North Macedonia after the capital Skopje and the seat of Kumanovo Municipality, the largest municipality in the country.

Kumanovo
Kumanovo · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kumanovo is the second-largest city in North Macedonia after the capital Skopje and the seat of Kumanovo Municipality, the largest municipality in the country. Kumanovo lies 340 metres above sea level and is surrounded by the Karadag part of Skopska Crna Gora mountain on its western side, Gradištanska mountain on its southern side, and Mangovica and German mountain on the eastern side. The Skopje Airport also serves Kumanovo.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kumanovo

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Tatar Sinan Bey Mosque, Kumanovo

    Mosque in Kumanovo, North Macedonia

    300 m · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Zebrnjak

    Mountain in Republic of Macedonia

    5.7 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bashkimi 1947 Stadium

    Association football stadium in Kumanovo

    1 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church Holy Trinity, Kumanovo

    Church building in Kumanovo, North Macedonia

    300 m · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Nova Jugoslavija Square

    Public square in Kumanovo, Macedonia

    0 m · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Marshall Tito Square, Kumanovo

    Public square in Kumanovo, Macedonia

    100 m · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Memorial Ossuary, Kumanovo

    WWII monument complex in Kumanovo

    1.1 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church St. Nicholas, Kumanovo

    Church in Kumanovo, Macedonia

    300 m · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Kumanovo City Stadium

    Association football stadium in Kumanovo

    500 m · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Zanaetčiski Dom

    Building and cultural heritage site in Kumanovo, Macedonia

    0 m · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    City Stadion

    Bratstvo Edinstvo.

  2. 02
    Kosturnica Memorial Park
  3. 03
    Kumanovo Baths

    Just a few kilometers outside the city, the waters here were first analyzed in 1920.

From Wikivoyage: Kumanovo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

Of course Kumanovo has many more options for dining out. The prices are relatively cheap and the food offered contains the finest Macedonian and international cuisine. Pizza places: Aktuelle, Laguna, Arbesha, Manos, Gino (Tus) Local Balkan restaurants known as "Kafana" that mainly serve barbecue: Baba Cana, Adzi Trajko, Batko Gjorgjia and many more While in Kumanovo try the famous "Kumanovo sudzuk" - a sausage…

From Wikivoyage: Kumanovo, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Kumanovo

Airports
Skopje (SKP), 21 km · Priština Adem Jashari (PRN), 74 km · Ohrid St. Paul the Apostle (OHD), 134 km
Stations
Adzi Tepe Airport, 3.2 km · Kumanovo railway station, 2.8 km
  • Ohrid → Kumanovo
    136 km · quickest by road, 4h 15m · $17–24
  • Prishtina → Kumanovo
    75 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · $11–15
  • Niš → Kumanovo
    134 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · din810–1,080
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kumanovo

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kumanovo. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundPublic transport in Kumanovo is not well organized, but you still will be able to find buses and minivans to all suburbs leaving the center every 30 minutes.

From Wikivoyage: Kumanovo, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ThasosGR

    10 ways of moving, 17 sources

    291 km
  2. 02
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    310 km
  3. 03
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    351 km
  4. 04
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    386 km
  5. 05
    GökçeadaTR

    11 ways of moving, 39 sources

    409 km

If you know how people move in Kumanovo – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Kumanovo

Kumanovo is 28 km from Skopje, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.