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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
A galleon on the Motława below the old crane, Gdansk
GdanskA galleon on the Motława below the old crane

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Gdansk by Nikater, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Baku or Gdansk?

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

  • food and drink
  • shopping

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

Choose Gdansk for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Gdansk’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 and Gdansk are level on 40.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Gdansk 50: Baku leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Gdansk 68: Gdansk leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Gdansk 52: Gdansk leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Gdansk 58: Gdansk leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Gdansk 62: Gdansk leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Gdansk 62: Gdansk leads by 17 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Gdansk 72: Gdansk leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Gdansk 42: Baku leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Gdansk 68: Gdansk leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku and Gdansk are level on 52.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Gdansk 36: Gdansk leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Gdansk.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on food and drink and shopping with your weighting.

Gdansk
Best match
55match

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

Gdansk in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Gdansk 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.

Gdansk's sunshine is measured 55 km from the centre, at Elblag.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Gdansk: 1991-2020 normals, Gdansk-Rebiechowo (12.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuGdansk
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguagePolish
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112112
Elevation-28 m11 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsGdańsk Lech Wałęsa Airport (GDN)13 km from centre72 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuGdansk
City population2,300,500487,834
People per km²1,075714
Museums within 10 km5034
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.