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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The Sanctuary of Truth by the sea, Pattaya
PattayaThe Sanctuary of Truth by the sea

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Pattaya by Matrix, Pexels License.

Baku or Pattaya?

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

  • culture and sights
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Pattaya for

  • nightlife
  • wellness
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Pattaya’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, Pattaya 66: Pattaya leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Pattaya 58: Baku leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Pattaya 30: Baku leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Pattaya 76: Pattaya leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Pattaya 40: Pattaya leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Pattaya 52: Pattaya leads by 7 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Pattaya 55: Pattaya leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Pattaya 36: Baku leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Pattaya 42: Baku leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Pattaya 84: Pattaya leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Pattaya 30: Baku leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Pattaya 58: Pattaya leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Pattaya.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

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

Pattaya
Best match
52match

Wins on nightlife 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

Pattaya in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
102 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Pattaya's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Sattahip.

Pattaya has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Pattaya's sunshine is measured 86 km from the centre, at Bangna Agromet / Ban Khlong Samrong.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Pattaya: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1961-1990, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sattahip (31.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuPattaya
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageThai
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Baht (THB)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+7
Emergency number102 or 112Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation-28 m35 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)83 km from centre150 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureBakuPattaya
City population2,300,500119,532
People per km²1,075-
Museums within 10 km500
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 months

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