Taxis in North Macedonia: Apps, Fares & Airport Rides

In Skopje and Ohrid you get a taxi by phone, by a local app or at a rank, and the meter does the rest. From Skopje airport the fare is fixed instead: 1,500 denars, which the airport’s own list prints as €25 (about $28 or £21), for the ride to the centre. Three facts to settle before you land: Uber’s city list has no North Macedonia on it, Bolt’s own city pages don’t show Skopje, and Skopje’s meters run on one of three tariffs; at every fuel cap of October 2026 the middle one applies.

Uber isn’t here, and Bolt is unconfirmed

Uber’s own list of cities, which we fetched on 31 October 2026, names no city in North Macedonia, and its page for Skopje returns “not found”. Bolt is the one travel sites disagree about. Its city pages include Sofia and Zagreb, but the page for Skopje returns “not found” as well, and so does Belgrade’s. In October 2023 the Macedonian news outlet Nezavisen Vesnik reported Bolt adverts looking for drivers in Skopje, and Bolt told the news agency Meta.mk that it would announce its ride service in the country once it started. We found no such announcement since. Bolt’s driver sign-up form did list Skopje on 31 October 2026, but it also listed Belgrade, Tirana and Sarajevo, whose rider pages return “not found” too, so a sign-up city isn’t a working service.

So count Bolt as a bonus, not a plan. If its app shows cars when you open it in Skopje, fine; if it doesn’t, the two local options below cover the capital, and one of them reaches Ohrid.

The apps and numbers that work

Wizi is a taxi app that also runs in Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia, and on its site it lists three Macedonian cities: Skopje, Veles and Ohrid. Its pages say you can pay in cash, by card or through the app, and give a Skopje phone number, +389 2 277 6800, and an Ohrid one, +389 2 277 6806. The website has an English version.

Naše Taxi is a Skopje company. Its own site says it has more than 150 vehicles, answers around the clock on 02 15 152, the number its site prints, and fits card terminals in its cars; it names Taxi Palas and Taxi Ilinden as part of the same group. Those are the operator’s claims about itself, but a number that easy is what you’ll want on a first night in town.

An app needs data the moment you land. An eSIM set up before you leave is covered in our eSIM guide for North Macedonia, and it saves you standing at the kerb with no way to order.

Skopje: three tariffs, one meter

In July 2022 the City of Skopje Council tied taxi fares to the price of fuel, in three steps. Every licensed meter in the city should be set to these:

The 2022 report doesn’t say which fuel the steps refer to. Read against petrol, every recent cap lands in the middle row: the energy regulator, which resets the price of 95-octane every week or two, set it at 98.50, 96 and 91 denars a litre in its decisions of 5, 19 and 26 October 2026, so the meter should run at 50 to start and 30 a kilometre unless petrol climbs past 119.50 denars. A 5 km ride comes to about 200 denars (€3.25, $3.65, £2.70) on that tariff, or about 235 on the top one (€3.80).

Here’s the catch. In August 2025 the chairman of Skopje’s auto-taxi group told Faktor that the meters are set to these three tariffs and that the price list should be displayed on the rear door windows, but that some drivers use the third tariff even though it applies only above 120 denars a litre, and that checks are rare. Wizi’s Skopje price page shows 60 to start, 35 a km and 420 an hour of waiting, the same three figures Faktor says drivers on the third tariff charge. We can’t tell you which tier a given car’s meter uses, so read the sticker on the rear window, and ask for the meter before you set off.

Unlicensed drivers are the other risk. The same report says they cluster where visitors arrive: around the intercity bus station, near the Holiday Inn and at the taxi stand opposite the Ministry of Justice, and that a short central ride that normally costs 150 denars can be charged double. The way round it is boring but works: order by phone or app, or flag a car with a company name, a sticker and a meter.

Ohrid: the night rate doubles the start

Ohrid has its own tariff, and it changed in May 2026. Faktor reported on 1 May 2026 that the Municipal Council raised fares from 6 May, and Wizi’s Ohrid page shows the same figures:

Before 6 May the kilometre rate by day was 35 denars and 45 at night, so a short hop has got dearer. Three kilometres by day is about 200 denars (€3.25), and at night about 250 (€4.05). The Council’s decision also had meters calibrated and technically secured, and the report mentions an initiative to put price lists on car doors; the practice it wants to stop is bargaining instead of using the meter. For rides between the lake and the airport, our Ohrid airport guide has the figures; the airport’s taxi page lists a phone number, 13666, and no price list.

From the airport: a fixed price list

Skopje’s airport doesn’t use the meter for taxis out of the terminal. Its official page says a price list applicable from 9 February 2024 is displayed at the exit and in every taxi, and the company’s white cars are parked at the exit around the clock. Airport Taxi is the firm the airport operator, TAV Macedonia, authorises to carry passengers from the terminal. These are the domestic rows on that list:

The same list prices cross-border runs: Sofia at 11,000 denars (€180) and Tirana at 16,600 (€270); the bus alternatives are in our Skopje to Sofia and Skopje to Tirana guides. The Ohrid row comes to about $145 or £108, so don’t take it before you’ve compared the bus and a booked transfer in our Skopje to Ohrid guide. The airport bus, the fixed taxi and a booked transfer are laid out side by side in Skopje airport to the city centre, and for a driver waiting with your name on a sign, the box above is how to book one.

Paying, and what to do on day one

Most taxis take cash only, the US State Department’s country page says, so carry denars for the fare and treat a card as the exception: Wizi says you can pay by card or through its app, and Naše Taxi says its cars carry card terminals. Our currency guide has the practical side. Save one of the two phone numbers before you fly, check the rear-window sticker when a car pulls up, and for a long hop agree the price or the route first. The city’s own buses and night lines are in the Skopje public transport guide, and for safety in general see is North Macedonia safe.

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