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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Baku or Krabi?

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

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • getting around

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

Choose Krabi for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Krabi’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, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Krabi 50: Baku leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Krabi 20: Baku leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Krabi 33: Baku leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 55 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Krabi 40: Baku leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Krabi 55: Krabi leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Krabi 30: Baku leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Krabi 20: Baku leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Krabi 12: Baku leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 42 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Krabi.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Baku
48match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Krabi
49match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches 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

Krabi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
212 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Krabi's temperatures are measured 67 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Krabi 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuKrabi
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageThai
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Baht (THB)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+7
Emergency number102 or 112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation-28 m16 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureBakuKrabi
City population2,300,50030,499
People per km²1,075-
Museums within 10 km500
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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. 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.