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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Baku or Newport Beach?

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

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Newport Beach for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Newport Beach’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, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Newport Beach 50: Baku leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Newport Beach 20: Baku leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Newport Beach 33: Baku leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Newport Beach 66: Newport Beach leads by 36 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Newport Beach 80: Newport Beach leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Newport Beach 20: Baku leads by 38 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Newport Beach 62: Newport Beach leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Newport Beach 15: Baku leads by 49 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Newport Beach 46: Baku leads by 6 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Newport Beach 44: Newport Beach leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Newport Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Baku
48match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Newport Beach
48match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families 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

Newport Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BakuNewport Beach

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Newport Beach: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1981-2010) normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuNewport Beach
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign Language-
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112911
Elevation-28 m3 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuNewport Beach
City population2,300,50085,239
People per km²1,075622
Museums within 10 km504
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.