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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The old town hall, Boca Raton
Boca RatonThe old town hall

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Boca Raton by Spudgun67, CC0.

Baku or Boca Raton?

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
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Boca Raton for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Boca Raton’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, Boca Raton 82: Boca Raton leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Boca Raton 44: Baku leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Boca Raton 28: Baku leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Boca Raton 32: Baku leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Boca Raton 50: Boca Raton leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Boca Raton 60: Boca Raton leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Boca Raton 62: Boca Raton leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Boca Raton 18: Baku leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Boca Raton 54: Boca Raton leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Boca Raton 22: Baku leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Boca Raton 33: Baku leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Boca Raton 42: Boca Raton leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Boca Raton.

Your match

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

Baku
Best match
48match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

Boca Raton
44match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Boca Raton in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
191 mmrain in the month
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BakuBoca Raton

Where the figures come from

Boca Raton 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Boca Raton: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Pompano Beach / Kendall Green (13.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuBoca Raton
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign Language-
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112911
Elevation-28 m4 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)33 km from centre138 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuBoca Raton
City population2,300,50097,422
People per km²1,0751,203
Museums within 10 km505
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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.