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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
Plaza de España, Seville
SevillePlaza de España

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Seville by Tibor Kovacs, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Baku or Seville?

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

  • beaches
  • prices

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

Choose Seville for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Seville’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, Seville 18: Baku leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Seville 73: Seville leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Seville 82: Seville leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Seville 62: Seville leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Seville 52: Seville leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Seville 80: Seville leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Seville 55: Seville leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Seville 72: Seville leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Seville 55: Seville leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Seville 58: Baku leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Seville 68: Seville leads by 16 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Seville 40: Seville leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Seville.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on beaches and prices with your weighting.

Seville
Best match
60match

Wins on day trips 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

Seville in July

36 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Seville: 1991-2020 normals, Sevilla / San Pablo (8.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuSeville
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageSpanish
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112112
Elevation-28 m18 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsSeville Airport (SVQ)9 km from centre96 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuSeville
City population2,300,500689,423
People per km²1,0754,896
Museums within 10 km5024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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. 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.