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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The Cloth Hall on the Main Square, Krakow
KrakowThe Cloth Hall on the Main Square

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Krakow by Jakub Hałun, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Baku or Krakow?

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
  • food and drink

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

Choose Krakow for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Krakow’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, Krakow 9: Baku leads by 31 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Krakow 55: Baku leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Krakow 77: Krakow leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Krakow 68: Krakow leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Krakow 62: Krakow leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Krakow 76: Krakow leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Krakow 58: Krakow leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Krakow 74: Krakow leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Baku and Krakow are level on 48.
Affordability. Baku 64, Krakow 72: Krakow leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Krakow 55: Krakow leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Krakow 36: Krakow leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Krakow.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on beaches and food and drink with your weighting.

Krakow
Best match
58match

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
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Krakow in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
100 mmrain in the month
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BakuKrakow

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Krakow: 1991-2020 normals, Krakow (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuKrakow
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguagePolish
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Zloty (PLN)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112112
Elevation-28 m219 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsKraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK)11 km from centre132 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuKrakow
City population2,300,500804,237
People per km²1,0752,459
Museums within 10 km50113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km24
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.