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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
Elizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth, Perth
PerthElizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Perth by Samuel Wiki, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Baku or Perth?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose Perth for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Perth’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, Perth 86: Perth leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Perth 58: Baku leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Perth 42: Baku leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Baku and Perth are level on 42.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Perth 72: Perth leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Perth 48: Perth leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Perth 74: Perth leads by 29 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Perth 55: Baku leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Perth 44: Baku leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Perth 28: Baku leads by 36 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Perth 50: Baku leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Perth 38: Perth leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Perth.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Perth
Best match
53match

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

Perth in July

19 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
20 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BakuPerth

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Perth: 1991-2020 normals, Perth (7.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuPerth
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageEnglish
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+8
Emergency number102 or 112000
Elevation-28 m2 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsPerth International Airport (PER)10 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuPerth
City population2,300,5002,141,834
People per km²1,075334
Museums within 10 km5015
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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. 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.