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The Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls, Antibes
AntibesThe Château Grimaldi, home of the Musée Picasso, on the sea walls
The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront

Photos: Antibes by Johan Allard, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License.

Antibes 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 Antibes for

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Baku for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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. Antibes 80, Baku 40: Antibes leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Antibes 50, Baku 60: Baku leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Antibes 42, Baku 62: Baku leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Antibes 40, Baku 42: Baku leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antibes 70, Baku 30: Antibes leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Antibes 88, Baku 45: Antibes leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Antibes 55, Baku 45: Antibes leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Antibes 62, Baku 58: Antibes leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Antibes 35, Baku 48: Baku leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Antibes 30, Baku 64: Baku leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antibes 35, Baku 52: Baku leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antibes 40, Baku 30: Antibes leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antibes and Baku.

Your match

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

Antibes
Best match
52match

Wins on day trips 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.

Antibes in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antibes: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (9.9 km from centre). Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntibesBaku
Official languageFrenchAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign Language
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Azerbaijan Manat (AZN)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC+4
Emergency number112102 or 112
Elevation0 m-28 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)11 km from centre130 non-stop destinationsHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAntibesBaku
City population77,6372,300,500
People per km²2,9301,075
Museums within 10 km1450
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 months

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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). 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.