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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The fountain on Plaza Mayor, Lima
LimaThe fountain on Plaza Mayor

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Lima by James C., CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Baku or Lima?

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

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • wellness

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

Choose Lima for

  • food and drink
  • nightlife
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Lima’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, Lima 42: Lima leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Lima 88: Lima leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Lima 66: Lima leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Lima 62: Lima leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Lima 45: Lima leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Lima 34: Baku leads by 11 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Lima 42: Baku leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Lima 35: Baku leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Lima 52: Lima leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Lima 70: Lima leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Lima 53: Lima leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Lima 25: Baku leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Lima.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Lima
Best match
51match

Wins on food and drink and nightlife 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

Lima in July

19 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
1 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Lima: 1991-2020 normals, Lima-Callao / Aerop. Internacional Jorgechavez (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuLima
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Sol (PEN)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-5
Emergency number102 or 112111 or 911
Elevation-28 m154 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsJorge Chávez International Airport (LIM)9 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuLima
City population2,300,5009,943,800
People per km²1,0753,721
Museums within 10 km5047
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months2 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Baku or Lima somewhere new.

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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). 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.