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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Baku or Florence?

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

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

Choose Florence for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Florence’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, Florence 14: Baku leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Florence 74: Florence leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Florence 94: Florence leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Baku and Florence are level on 42.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Florence 58: Florence leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Florence 98: Florence leads by 53 points.
Good for families. Baku and Florence are level on 45.
Getting around. Baku 58, Florence 78: Florence leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Florence 72: Florence leads by 24 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Florence 35: Baku leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Florence 58: Florence leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Florence 42: Florence leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Florence.

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.

Florence
Best match
59match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights 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

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Florence 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.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuFlorence
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 m50 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuFlorence
City population2,300,500360,930
People per km²1,0753,528
Museums within 10 km50141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

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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.