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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
Clearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier, Clearwater
ClearwaterClearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Clearwater by ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Baku or Clearwater?

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

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • prices

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

Choose Clearwater for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Clearwater’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, Clearwater 90: Clearwater leads by 50 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Clearwater 38: Baku leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Clearwater 18: Baku leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Clearwater 34: Baku leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Clearwater 55: Clearwater leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Clearwater 58: Clearwater leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Clearwater 78: Clearwater leads by 33 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Clearwater 28: Baku leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Clearwater 27: Baku leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Clearwater 35: Baku leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Clearwater 36: Baku leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Clearwater 40: Clearwater leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Clearwater.

Your match

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

Baku
Best match
48match

Wins on culture and sights and getting around with your weighting.

Clearwater
45match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Clearwater in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Clearwater 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.

Clearwater's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Clearwater: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg / High Point (12.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuClearwater
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 m9 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuClearwater
City population2,300,500117,292
People per km²1,0751,154
Museums within 10 km504
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months8 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.