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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield, Manchester
ManchesterThe railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Manchester by IIya Kuzhekin, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Baku or Manchester?

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
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Manchester for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Manchester’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, Manchester 9: Baku leads by 31 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Manchester 51: Baku leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Manchester 50: Baku leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Manchester 72: Manchester leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Manchester 64: Manchester leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Manchester 77: Manchester leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Manchester 58: Manchester leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Manchester 68: Manchester leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Manchester 62: Manchester leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Manchester 42: Baku leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Manchester 74: Manchester leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Manchester 15: Baku leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Manchester.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Manchester
Best match
54match

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

Manchester in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 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). Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuManchester
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageEnglish
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+4UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112112 or 999
Elevation-28 m38 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre211 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuManchester
City population2,300,500547,627
People per km²1,0754,737
Museums within 10 km5028
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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. 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.