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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
Korenlei reflected in the Leie, Ghent
GhentKorenlei reflected in the Leie

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

Baku or Ghent?

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 Ghent for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Ghent’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, Ghent 25: Baku leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Ghent 62: Ghent leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Ghent 72: Ghent leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Ghent 55: Ghent leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Ghent 35: Ghent leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Ghent 88: Ghent leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Ghent 50: Ghent leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Ghent 78: Ghent leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Ghent 50: Ghent leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Ghent 38: Baku leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Ghent 60: Ghent leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Ghent 33: Ghent leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Ghent.

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.

Ghent
Best match
54match

Wins on day trips and getting around 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

Ghent in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Ghent 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.

Ghent's sunshine is measured 45 km from the centre, at Vlissingen.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Ghent: 2009-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Melle / Kalverhaag (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuGhent
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112112
Elevation-28 m12 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuGhent
City population2,300,500272,657
People per km²1,0751,728
Museums within 10 km5030
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km25
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.