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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
Punta del Este

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License.

Baku or Punta del Este?

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
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Punta del Este for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta del Este’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, Punta del Este 72: Punta del Este leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Punta del Este 45: Baku leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Punta del Este 22: Baku leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Punta del Este 60: Punta del Este leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Punta del Este 55: Punta del Este leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Baku and Punta del Este are level on 45.
Good for families. Baku 45, Punta del Este 55: Punta del Este leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Punta del Este 35: Baku leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Punta del Este 42: Baku leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Punta del Este 20: Baku leads by 44 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Punta del Este 22: Baku leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Punta del Este 32: Punta del Este leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Punta del Este.

Your match

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

Baku
Best match
48match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Punta del Este
42match

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

Punta del Este in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
101 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Punta del Este's temperatures are measured 79 km from the centre, at Rocha.

Punta del Este 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). Punta del Este: 1991-2020 normals, Rocha (78.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuPunta del Este
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign Language-
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-3
Emergency number102 or 112911
Elevation-28 m11 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsCapitan Corbeta CA Curbelo International Airport (PDP)18 km from centre6 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuPunta del Este
City population2,300,5009,277
People per km²1,075455
Museums within 10 km505
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months3 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). 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.