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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Baku or Dublin?

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

  • prices
  • beaches
  • food and drink

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

Choose Dublin for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Dublin’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, Dublin 27: Baku leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Dublin 50: Baku leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Dublin 64: Dublin leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Dublin 62: Dublin leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Dublin 70: Dublin leads by 40 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Dublin 72: Dublin leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Dublin 57: Dublin leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Dublin 66: Dublin leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Dublin 54: Dublin leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Dublin 20: Baku leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Dublin 65: Dublin leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Dublin 25: Baku leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Dublin.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Dublin
Best match
53match

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

Dublin in July

20 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
17 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). Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuDublin
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageEnglish, Irish
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+4UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112112
Elevation-28 m20 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuDublin
City population2,300,500592,713
People per km²1,0755,154
Museums within 10 km5040
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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.