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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The wide beach and its hotels in morning light, Daytona Beach
Daytona BeachThe wide beach and its hotels in morning light

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Daytona Beach by Han Zheng, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Baku or Daytona Beach?

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
  • culture and sights
  • food and drink

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

Choose Daytona Beach for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Daytona Beach’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, Daytona Beach 80: Daytona Beach leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Daytona Beach 36: Baku leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Daytona Beach 30: Baku leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Daytona Beach 40: Baku leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Daytona Beach 56: Daytona Beach leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Daytona Beach 66: Daytona Beach leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Daytona Beach 60: Daytona Beach leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Daytona Beach 18: Baku leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Daytona Beach 27: Baku leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Daytona Beach 46: Baku leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Daytona Beach 30: Baku leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku and Daytona Beach are level on 30.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Daytona Beach.

Your match

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

Baku
Best match
48match

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

Daytona Beach
43match

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

Daytona Beach in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BakuDaytona Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Daytona Beach: 1991-2020 normals, Daytona Beach / Mansfield Mobile Home Park (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuDaytona Beach
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 destinationsDaytona Beach International Airport (DAB)5 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuDaytona Beach
City population2,300,50072,647
People per km²1,075440
Museums within 10 km506
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months9 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.