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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The Anshun Bridge over the Jin River, Chengdu
ChengduThe Anshun Bridge over the Jin River

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

Baku or Chengdu?

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

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Chengdu for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Chengdu’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, Chengdu 5: Baku leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Chengdu 86: Chengdu leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Chengdu 60: Baku leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Chengdu 68: Chengdu leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Chengdu 68: Chengdu leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Chengdu 80: Chengdu leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Chengdu 65: Chengdu leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Chengdu 74: Chengdu leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Chengdu 64: Chengdu leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Chengdu 80: Chengdu leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Chengdu 50: Baku leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Chengdu 58: Chengdu leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Chengdu.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on beaches and culture and sights with your weighting.

Chengdu
Best match
63match

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

Chengdu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
177 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 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). Chengdu: 1991-2020 normals, Chengdu (4.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuChengdu
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguagePutonghua
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+8
Emergency number102 or 112Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation-28 m500 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsChengdu Shuangliu International Airport (CTU)16 km from centre77 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-6 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuChengdu
City population2,300,50020,937,757
People per km²1,0751,456
Museums within 10 km5010
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.