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Grote Markt and the Brabo Fountain, Antwerp
AntwerpGrote Markt and the Brabo Fountain
The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront

Photos: Antwerp by Norbert Jakab, Pexels License; Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License.

Antwerp 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 Antwerp for

  • day trips
  • shopping
  • families

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

Choose Baku for

  • prices
  • 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. Antwerp 15, Baku 40: Baku leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Antwerp 62, Baku 60: Antwerp leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Antwerp 73, Baku 62: Antwerp leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Antwerp 56, Baku 42: Antwerp leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antwerp 33, Baku 30: Antwerp leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Antwerp 86, Baku 45: Antwerp leads by 41 points.
Good for families. Antwerp 62, Baku 45: Antwerp leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Antwerp 75, Baku 58: Antwerp leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Antwerp 70, Baku 48: Antwerp leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Antwerp 38, Baku 64: Baku leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antwerp 58, Baku 52: Antwerp leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antwerp and Baku are level on 30.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antwerp and Baku.

Your match

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

Antwerp
Best match
55match

Wins on day trips and shopping with your weighting.

Baku
48match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Antwerp in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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

Antwerp 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.

Antwerp's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Uccle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntwerpBaku
Official languageFrench, German, DutchAzerbaijani, 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
Elevation7 m-28 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpBaku
City population529,2472,300,500
People per km²2,5421,075
Museums within 10 km3850
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km92
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. 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. 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.