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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Baku or Stockholm?

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

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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 Stockholm are level on 40.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Stockholm 64: Stockholm leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Stockholm 57: Stockholm leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 23 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 37 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Stockholm 30: Baku leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Stockholm 65: Stockholm leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on prices with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families 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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuStockholm
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageSwedish
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112112
Elevation-28 m22 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuStockholm
City population2,300,500984,748
People per km²1,0755,260
Museums within 10 km50266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.