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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The Cathedral of Sant'Agata, Catania
CataniaThe Cathedral of Sant'Agata

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Catania by Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Baku or Catania?

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
  • shopping
  • prices

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

Choose Catania for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Catania’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, Catania 72: Catania leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Catania 77: Catania leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Baku and Catania are level on 62.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Catania 60: Catania leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Catania 83: Catania leads by 53 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Catania 84: Catania leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Catania 50: Catania leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Catania 48: Baku leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Catania 42: Baku leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Catania 60: Baku leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Catania 55: Catania leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku and Catania are level on 30.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Catania.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on getting around and shopping with your weighting.

Catania
Best match
60match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips 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

Catania in July

31 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine 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

Catania's sunshine is measured 88 km from the centre, at Messina.

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

Before you go

MeasureBakuCatania
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageItalian
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112112
Elevation-28 m7 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsCatania-Fontanarossa Airport (CTA)4 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuCatania
City population2,300,500311,584
People per km²1,0751,704
Museums within 10 km5025
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
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. 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.