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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
St. Petersburg, Florida

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License.

Baku or St. Petersburg, Florida?

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
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose St. Petersburg, Florida for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’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, St. Petersburg, Florida 85: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 45 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: Baku leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: Baku leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, St. Petersburg, Florida 44: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, St. Petersburg, Florida 58: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, St. Petersburg, Florida 55: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, St. Petersburg, Florida 70: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, St. Petersburg, Florida 33: Baku leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, St. Petersburg, Florida 38: Baku leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, St. Petersburg, Florida 35: Baku leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, St. Petersburg, Florida 42: Baku leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, St. Petersburg, Florida 40: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and St. Petersburg, Florida.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Baku
48match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

St. Petersburg, Florida
50match

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

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BakuSt. Petersburg, Florida

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuSt. Petersburg, Florida
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign Language-
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112911
Elevation-28 m134 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuSt. Petersburg, Florida
City population2,300,500258,308
People per km²1,075725
Museums within 10 km5013
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months8 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.