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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Baku or Sedona?

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 Sedona for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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, Sedona 16: Baku leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Sedona 33: Baku leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Sedona 20: Baku leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Sedona 8: Baku leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 63 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Sedona 55: Sedona leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Sedona 42: Baku leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Sedona 22: Baku leads by 36 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Sedona 34: Baku leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Sedona 18: Baku leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Sedona 13: Baku leads by 39 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 52 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Sedona.

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.

Sedona
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness 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
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona 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). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuSedona
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign Language-
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-7
Emergency number102 or 112911
Elevation-28 m1,319 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuSedona
City population2,300,5009,684
People per km²1,075195
Museums within 10 km500
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.