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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License.

Baku or Montego Bay?

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
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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

Choose Montego Bay for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Montego Bay’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, Montego Bay 84: Montego Bay leads by 44 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Montego Bay 50: Baku leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Montego Bay 28: Baku leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Baku and Montego Bay are level on 42.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Montego Bay 65: Montego Bay leads by 35 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Montego Bay 50: Montego Bay leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Montego Bay 48: Montego Bay leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Montego Bay 20: Baku leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Montego Bay 25: Baku leads by 23 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Montego Bay 38: Baku leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Montego Bay 32: Baku leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Montego Bay 45: Montego Bay leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Montego Bay.

Your match

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

Baku
Best match
48match

Wins on getting around and culture and sights with your weighting.

Montego Bay
44match

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

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Montego Bay in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BakuMontego Bay

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuMontego Bay
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-5
Emergency number102 or 112Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation-28 m19 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuMontego Bay
City population2,300,500123,994
People per km²1,075-
Museums within 10 km500
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 months

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.