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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
Playa Manzanillo, Puerto Escondido
Puerto EscondidoPlaya Manzanillo

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Puerto Escondido by theklan, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Baku or Puerto Escondido?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

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

Choose Puerto Escondido for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Escondido’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, Puerto Escondido 82: Puerto Escondido leads by 42 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Puerto Escondido 48: Baku leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Puerto Escondido 8: Baku leads by 54 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Puerto Escondido 45: Puerto Escondido leads by 3 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Puerto Escondido 78: Puerto Escondido leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Puerto Escondido 35: Baku leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Puerto Escondido 42: Baku leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Puerto Escondido 40: Baku leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Puerto Escondido 22: Baku leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Puerto Escondido 68: Puerto Escondido leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Puerto Escondido 12: Baku leads by 40 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Puerto Escondido 58: Puerto Escondido leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Puerto Escondido.

Your match

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

Baku
Best match
48match

Wins on culture and sights and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Puerto Escondido
45match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches 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

Puerto Escondido in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
116 mmrain in the month
7 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

Puerto Escondido's temperatures are measured 66 km from the centre, at Puerto Angel, Oax..

Puerto Escondido 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Puerto Escondido: 1991-2020 normals, Puerto Angel, Oax. (65.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuPuerto Escondido
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-6
Emergency number102 or 112911
Elevation-28 m60 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsPuerto Escondido International Airport (PXM)2 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuPuerto Escondido
City population2,300,50029,903
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. 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.