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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The Opera House from the water, Sydney
SydneyThe Opera House from the water

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Sydney by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Baku or Sydney?

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

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

Choose Sydney for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Sydney’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, Sydney 95: Sydney leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Sydney 77: Sydney leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Sydney 60: Baku leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Sydney 85: Sydney leads by 55 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Sydney 50: Sydney leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Sydney 68: Sydney leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Sydney 22: Baku leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Sydney 73: Sydney leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Sydney 55: Sydney leads by 25 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Sydney.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Sydney
Best match
66match

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

Sydney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BakuSydney

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuSydney
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageEnglish
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112000
Elevation-28 m6 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuSydney
City population2,300,5005,450,496
People per km²1,075449
Museums within 10 km5038
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months6 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.