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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
GlasgowKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Glasgow by Stinglehammer, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Baku or Glasgow?

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

  • beaches
  • prices
  • food and drink

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

Choose Glasgow for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Glasgow’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, Glasgow 14: Baku leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Glasgow 52: Baku leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Baku and Glasgow are level on 62.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Glasgow 75: Glasgow leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Glasgow 76: Glasgow leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Glasgow 58: Glasgow leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Glasgow 66: Glasgow leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Glasgow 64: Glasgow leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Glasgow 46: Baku leads by 18 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Glasgow 72: Glasgow leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Glasgow 28: Baku leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Glasgow.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Glasgow
Best match
57match

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

Glasgow in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
4 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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Where the figures come from

Glasgow 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.

Glasgow's sunshine is measured 90 km from the centre, at Eskdalemuir.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Glasgow: 1991-2020 normals, Glasgow Airport (11.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuGlasgow
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageEnglish
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+4UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112112 or 999
Elevation-28 m21 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsGlasgow Airport (GLA)11 km from centre95 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuGlasgow
City population2,300,500626,410
People per km²1,075190
Museums within 10 km5029
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.