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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The Opera House on the fjord, Oslo
OsloThe Opera House on the fjord

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Oslo by Beata May, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Baku or Oslo?

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
  • food and drink
  • beaches

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

Choose Oslo for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Oslo’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, Oslo 36: Baku leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Oslo 55: Baku leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Oslo 66: Oslo leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Oslo 48: Oslo leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Oslo 82: Oslo leads by 52 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Oslo 52: Oslo leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Oslo 63: Oslo leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Oslo 85: Oslo leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Oslo 50: Oslo leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Oslo 14: Baku leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Oslo 62: Oslo leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Oslo 60: Oslo leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Oslo.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on prices and food and drink with your weighting.

Oslo
Best match
56match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness 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

Oslo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
86 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
18 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). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuOslo
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation-28 m23 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre147 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuOslo
City population2,300,500717,710
People per km²1,075-
Museums within 10 km5060
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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.