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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas, Guadalajara
GuadalajaraThe twin towers of the cathedral over Plaza de Armas

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

Baku or Guadalajara?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Guadalajara for

  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Guadalajara’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, Guadalajara 5: Baku leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Guadalajara 75: Guadalajara leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Baku and Guadalajara are level on 62.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Guadalajara 68: Guadalajara leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Guadalajara 55: Guadalajara leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Guadalajara 66: Guadalajara leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Guadalajara 55: Guadalajara leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Guadalajara 40: Baku leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Guadalajara 60: Guadalajara leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Guadalajara 78: Guadalajara leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Guadalajara 60: Guadalajara leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Guadalajara 35: Guadalajara leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Guadalajara.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Guadalajara
Best match
55match

Wins on nightlife and nature and the outdoors 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
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Guadalajara in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
205 mmrain in the month
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BakuGuadalajara

Where the figures come from

Guadalajara has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Guadalajara: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBakuGuadalajara
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-6
Emergency number102 or 112911
Elevation-28 m1,536 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsGuadalajara International Airport (GDL)17 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuGuadalajara
City population2,300,5001,385,621
People per km²1,0759,556
Museums within 10 km5017
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.