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The Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens, Adelaide
AdelaideThe Adelaide skyline and the footbridge over the River Torrens
The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront

Photos: Adelaide by Ardash Muradian, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License.

Adelaide or Baku?

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 Adelaide for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose Baku for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Baku’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. Adelaide 68, Baku 40: Adelaide leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Adelaide 72, Baku 60: Adelaide leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Adelaide 48, Baku 62: Baku leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Adelaide and Baku are level on 42.
Nature & outdoors. Adelaide 66, Baku 30: Adelaide leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Adelaide 60, Baku 45: Adelaide leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Adelaide 70, Baku 45: Adelaide leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Adelaide 57, Baku 58: Baku leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Adelaide 44, Baku 48: Baku leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Adelaide 40, Baku 64: Baku leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Adelaide 63, Baku 52: Adelaide leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Adelaide 42, Baku 30: Adelaide leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Adelaide and Baku.

Your match

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

Adelaide
Best match
56match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Adelaide in July

16 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
72 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Baku in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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AdelaideBaku

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Adelaide: 1991-2020 normals, Adelaide (West Terrace / ngayirdapira) (3.1 km from centre). Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAdelaideBaku
Official languageEnglishAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign Language
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Azerbaijan Manat (AZN)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+9:30, UTC+10:30 in summerUTC+4
Emergency number000102 or 112
Elevation1 m-28 m
Main airportAdelaide International Airport (ADL)6 km from centre35 non-stop destinationsHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAdelaideBaku
City population1,387,2902,300,500
People per km²1,0711,075
Museums within 10 km1350
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 months4 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Adelaide or Baku somewhere new.

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. 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.