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The Palais des Papes and the cathedral, Avignon
AvignonThe Palais des Papes and the cathedral
The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront

Photos: Avignon by BlueBreezeWiki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License.

Avignon 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 Avignon for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Baku for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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. Avignon 22, Baku 40: Baku leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Avignon 57, Baku 60: Baku leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Avignon 69, Baku 62: Avignon leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Avignon 30, Baku 42: Baku leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Avignon 70, Baku 30: Avignon leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Avignon 92, Baku 45: Avignon leads by 47 points.
Good for families. Avignon and Baku are level on 45.
Getting around. Avignon 62, Baku 58: Avignon leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Avignon 38, Baku 48: Baku leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Avignon 44, Baku 64: Baku leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Avignon 68, Baku 52: Avignon leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Avignon 35, Baku 30: Avignon leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Avignon and Baku.

Your match

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

Avignon
Best match
53match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors 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.

Avignon in July

32 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
24 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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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Where the figures come from

Avignon 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.

Avignon's sunshine is measured 65 km from the centre, at Marseille / Marignane.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Avignon: 2005-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Avignon / Morières-lès-Avignon (8.6 km from centre). Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAvignonBaku
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
Elevation10 m-28 m
Main airportMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)65 km from centre126 non-stop destinationsHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days-

By the numbers

MeasureAvignonBaku
City population92,1882,300,500
People per km²1,4201,075
Museums within 10 km1150
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km62
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.