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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo
TokyoShibuya Crossing

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Tokyo by Benh LIEU SONG, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Baku or Tokyo?

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 Tokyo for

  • shopping
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Tokyo’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 Tokyo are level on 40.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 38 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Tokyo 84: Tokyo leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 44 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Tokyo 68: Tokyo leads by 38 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Tokyo 85: Tokyo leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Tokyo 95: Tokyo leads by 50 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Tokyo 98: Tokyo leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Tokyo 99: Tokyo leads by 51 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Tokyo 48: Baku leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Tokyo 86: Tokyo leads by 34 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Tokyo 78: Tokyo leads by 48 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Tokyo.

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.

Tokyo
Best match
80match

Wins on shopping 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

Tokyo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
157 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BakuTokyo

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuTokyo
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageJapanese
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+9
Emergency number102 or 112Police 110, fire 119
Elevation-28 m6 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuTokyo
City population2,300,50014,264,798
People per km²1,0756,501
Museums within 10 km50192
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 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.