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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The Sagrada Família, Barcelona
BarcelonaThe Sagrada Família

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Barcelona by Canaan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Baku or Barcelona?

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 Baku for

  • prices

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

Choose Barcelona for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Barcelona’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. Baku 40, Barcelona 75: Barcelona leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Barcelona 82: Barcelona leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Barcelona 86: Barcelona leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Barcelona 82: Barcelona leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Barcelona 72: Barcelona leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Barcelona 80: Barcelona leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Barcelona 76: Barcelona leads by 31 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Barcelona 80: Barcelona leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Barcelona 75: Barcelona leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Barcelona 44: Baku leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Barcelona 70: Barcelona leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Barcelona 38: Barcelona leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Barcelona.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on prices with your weighting.

Barcelona
Best match
72match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Barcelona in July

28 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
24 °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. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Barcelona: 1991-2020 normals, Barcelona / Aeropuerto (14.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuBarcelona
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageSpanish
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112112
Elevation-28 m9 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN)13 km from centre235 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuBarcelona
City population2,300,5001,731,649
People per km²1,07517,094
Museums within 10 km5095
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months3 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.