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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
São Paulo Cathedral, Sao Paulo
Sao PauloSão Paulo Cathedral

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Sao Paulo by Webysther Nunes, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Baku or Sao Paulo?

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

  • getting around
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Sao Paulo for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Sao Paulo’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, Sao Paulo 42: Sao Paulo leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Sao Paulo 84: Sao Paulo leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Sao Paulo 60: Baku leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Sao Paulo 86: Sao Paulo leads by 44 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Sao Paulo 48: Sao Paulo leads by 18 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Sao Paulo 47: Sao Paulo leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Sao Paulo 52: Sao Paulo leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Sao Paulo 44: Baku leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Sao Paulo 70: Sao Paulo leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Sao Paulo 62: Baku leads by 2 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Sao Paulo 76: Sao Paulo leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Sao Paulo 25: Baku leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Sao Paulo.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on getting around and wellness with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
Best match
58match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink 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

Sao Paulo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
53 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BakuSao Paulo

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuSao Paulo
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguagePortuguese
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-3
Emergency number102 or 112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation-28 m760 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre104 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuSao Paulo
City population2,300,50011,451,999
People per km²1,0757,519
Museums within 10 km5090
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

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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.