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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The Hassan II Mosque and its minaret, Casablanca
CasablancaThe Hassan II Mosque and its minaret

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Casablanca by Samir Bakkah, Pexels License.

Baku or Casablanca?

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

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Casablanca for

  • wellness
  • beaches
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Casablanca’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, Casablanca 50: Casablanca leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Baku and Casablanca are level on 60.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Casablanca 52: Baku leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Casablanca 44: Casablanca leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Casablanca 33: Casablanca leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Casablanca 55: Casablanca leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Casablanca 38: Baku leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Casablanca 42: Baku leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Casablanca 50: Casablanca leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Casablanca 68: Casablanca leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Casablanca 38: Baku leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Casablanca 52: Casablanca leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Casablanca.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Baku
48match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Casablanca
49match

Wins on wellness 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.

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

Casablanca in July

26 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BakuCasablanca

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Casablanca: 1991-2020 normals, Casablanca (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuCasablanca
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1
Emergency number102 or 112Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation-28 m115 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsMohammed V International Airport (CMN)26 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuCasablanca
City population2,300,5003,215,935
People per km²1,0758,375
Museums within 10 km503
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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). 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.