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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Baku or Kotor?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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

Choose Kotor for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Kotor’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, Kotor 57: Kotor leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Kotor 37: Baku leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Kotor 55: Baku leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Kotor 30: Baku leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Kotor 80: Kotor leads by 50 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Kotor 72: Kotor leads by 27 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Kotor 36: Baku leads by 9 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Kotor 48: Baku leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Kotor 20: Baku leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Kotor 57: Baku leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Kotor 20: Baku leads by 32 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Kotor 24: Baku leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Kotor.

Your match

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

Baku
Best match
48match

Wins on live music and the arts and shopping with your weighting.

Kotor
45match

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

Kotor in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Kotor 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.

Kotor's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Podgorica-Grad.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuKotor
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageMontenegrin
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112112
Elevation-28 m10 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureBakuKotor
City population2,300,500562
People per km²1,075-
Museums within 10 km503
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 months

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. 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. 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.