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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay, Singapore
SingaporeThe Supertrees, Gardens by the Bay

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Singapore by Kai Kai, Pexels License.

Baku or Singapore?

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
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Singapore for

  • families
  • getting around
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Singapore’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 and Singapore are level on 40.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Baku and Singapore are level on 62.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Singapore 50: Singapore leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Singapore 45: Singapore leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Singapore 25: Baku leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Singapore 88: Singapore leads by 43 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Singapore 92: Singapore leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Singapore 76: Singapore leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Singapore 25: Baku leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Singapore 50: Baku leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Singapore 40: Singapore leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Singapore.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Singapore
Best match
57match

Wins on families and getting around 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

Singapore in July

31 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
12 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). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuSingapore
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+8
Emergency number102 or 112Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation-28 m21 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre167 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuSingapore
City population2,300,5005,866,139
People per km²1,0758,158
Museums within 10 km5040
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 months

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Baku or Singapore somewhere new.

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.