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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The beach promenade in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
Tel AvivThe beach promenade in Tel Aviv

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Tel Aviv by israeltourism, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Baku or Tel Aviv?

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 Tel Aviv for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Tel Aviv’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, Tel Aviv 86: Tel Aviv leads by 46 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Tel Aviv 80: Tel Aviv leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Tel Aviv 57: Baku leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Tel Aviv 82: Tel Aviv leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Tel Aviv 52: Tel Aviv leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Tel Aviv 84: Tel Aviv leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Tel Aviv 68: Tel Aviv leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Tel Aviv 64: Tel Aviv leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Tel Aviv 55: Tel Aviv leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Tel Aviv 14: Baku leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Tel Aviv 70: Tel Aviv leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Tel Aviv 35: Tel Aviv leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Tel Aviv.

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.

Tel Aviv
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Tel Aviv in July

32 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
27 °Csea
14 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). Tel Aviv: 1991-2020 normals, Bet Dagan (9.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuTel Aviv
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageHebrew
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)New Israeli Sheqel (ILS)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCHM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112Police 100, fire 102
Elevation-28 m5 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsBen Gurion International Airport (TLV)13 km from centre111 non-stop destinations

By the numbers

MeasureBakuTel Aviv
City population2,300,500467,875
People per km²1,0758,998
Museums within 10 km5098
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months7 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. 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.