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The Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel, Amman
AmmanThe Umayyad Palace on the Amman Citadel
The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront

Photos: Amman by AXP Photography, Pexels License; Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License.

Amman 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 Amman for

  • day trips
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Baku for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • beaches

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. Amman 22, Baku 40: Baku leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Amman 62, Baku 60: Amman leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Amman 54, Baku 62: Baku leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Amman 32, Baku 42: Baku leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amman 45, Baku 30: Amman leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Amman 80, Baku 45: Amman leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Amman 38, Baku 45: Baku leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Amman 30, Baku 58: Baku leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Amman 42, Baku 48: Baku leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Amman 58, Baku 64: Baku leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amman 27, Baku 52: Baku leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amman 55, Baku 30: Amman leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amman and Baku.

Your match

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

Amman
45match

Wins on day trips and wellness with your weighting.

Baku
Best match
48match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Amman in July

33 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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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Where the figures come from

Amman 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.

Amman's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Mafraq.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amman: 1994-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Amman Airport (6 km from centre). Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmmanBaku
Official languageArabicAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign Language
CurrencyJordanian Dinar (JOD)Azerbaijan Manat (AZN)
SocketsBCFGJ230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+3UTC+4
Emergency number911102 or 112
Elevation776 m-28 m
Main airportQueen Alia International Airport (AMM)26 km from centre98 non-stop destinationsHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureAmmanBaku
City population4,007,5262,300,500
People per km²2,3851,075
Museums within 10 km850
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

Where else could you go?

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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). 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. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.