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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
Hobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Hobart
HobartHobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Hobart by Gary Houston, CC0.

Baku or Hobart?

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
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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

Choose Hobart for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Hobart’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, Hobart 30: Baku leads by 10 points.
Food & drink. Baku and Hobart are level on 60.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Hobart 56: Baku leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Hobart 30: Baku leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Hobart 85: Hobart leads by 55 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Hobart 60: Hobart leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Hobart 56: Hobart leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Hobart 45: Baku leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Hobart 38: Baku leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Hobart 35: Baku leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Hobart 45: Baku leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Hobart 40: Hobart leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Hobart.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Baku
48match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

Hobart
48match

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

Hobart in July

13 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
9 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BakuHobart

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Hobart: 1991-2020 normals, Hobart (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuHobart
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageEnglish
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112000
Elevation-28 m54 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsHobart International Airport (HBA)17 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuHobart
City population2,300,500197,451
People per km²1,075116
Museums within 10 km508
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.