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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
Rabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira, Porto
PortoRabelo boats on the Douro and the Ribeira

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Porto by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Baku or Porto?

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

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

Choose Porto for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Porto’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 and Porto are level on 40.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Porto 70: Porto leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Porto 68: Porto leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Porto 65: Porto leads by 23 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Porto 64: Porto leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Porto 79: Porto leads by 34 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Porto 52: Porto leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Porto 66: Porto leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Porto 52: Porto leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Porto 62: Baku leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku and Porto are level on 52.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Porto 34: Porto leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Porto.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on prices with your weighting.

Porto
Best match
59match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips 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

Porto in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
22 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
17 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BakuPorto

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Porto: 1991-2020 normals, Porto / Serra Do Pilar (2.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuPorto
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguagePortuguese
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112112
Elevation-28 m104 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsFrancisco de Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO)12 km from centre134 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuPorto
City population2,300,500273,476
People per km²1,0756,606
Museums within 10 km5042
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
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). 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.