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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The Viru Gate, Tallinn
TallinnThe Viru Gate

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

Baku or Tallinn?

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
  • beaches
  • food and drink

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

Choose Tallinn for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Tallinn’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, Tallinn 28: Baku leads by 12 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Tallinn 52: Baku leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Tallinn 68: Tallinn leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Tallinn 44: Tallinn leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Tallinn 55: Tallinn leads by 25 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Tallinn 58: Tallinn leads by 13 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Tallinn 60: Tallinn leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Tallinn 72: Tallinn leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Tallinn 40: Baku leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Tallinn 47: Baku leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Tallinn 50: Baku leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Tallinn 50: Tallinn leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Tallinn.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Tallinn
Best match
52match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness 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

Tallinn in July

22 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
82 mmrain in the month
10 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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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Tallinn: 1991-2020 normals, Tallin / Harku (10.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuTallinn
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageEstonian
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112112
Elevation-28 m28 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsLennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL)6 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuTallinn
City population2,300,500457,572
People per km²1,0752,871
Museums within 10 km5016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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. 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.