Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; La Romana by Edgar El, CC BY 3.0, cropped.
Baku or La Romana?
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 La Romana for
- beaches
- nature and the outdoors
- wellness
What lies behind each score is written up on La Romana’s own page.
Scoreboard
Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.
What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and La Romana.
Your match
Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.
Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.
Wins on beaches 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
La Romana in July
Daytime high, °C
Rainfall in the month, mm
Where the figures come from
La Romana's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Punta Cana.
La Romana 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). La Romana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (65.4 km from centre).
Before you go
| Measure | Baku | La Romana |
|---|---|---|
| Official language | Azerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign Language | Spanish |
| Currency | Azerbaijan Manat (AZN) | Dominican Peso (DOP) |
| Sockets | CF220 V, 50 Hz | AB110 V, 60 Hz |
| Driving side | Right | Right |
| Time zone | UTC+4 | UTC-4 |
| Emergency number | 102 or 112 | 911 |
| Elevation | -28 m | 10 m |
| Main airport | Heydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinations | Casa De Campo International Airport (LRM)7 km from centre13 non-stop destinations |
| Public holidays this year | - | 13 days |
By the numbers
| Measure | Baku | La Romana |
|---|---|---|
| City population | 2,300,500 | 139,238 |
| People per km² | 1,075 | 512 |
| Museums within 10 km | 50 | 0 |
| UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km | 2 | 0 |
| Swim season, months above 21 °C | 4 months | 12 months |
Where else could you go?
Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Baku or La Romana somewhere new.