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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands, Toronto
TorontoThe CN Tower and skyline from the Toronto Islands

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Toronto by Dillan Payne, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Baku or Toronto?

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
  • beaches

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

Choose Toronto for

  • families
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Toronto’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, Toronto 34: Baku leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Toronto 70: Toronto leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Toronto 50: Baku leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Toronto 62: Toronto leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Toronto 52: Toronto leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Toronto 50: Toronto leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Toronto 74: Toronto leads by 29 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Toronto 65: Toronto leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Toronto 66: Toronto leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Toronto 34: Baku leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Toronto 72: Toronto leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Toronto 33: Toronto leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Toronto.

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.

Toronto
Best match
55match

Wins on families 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
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Toronto in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
83 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
15 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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuToronto
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageFrench, English
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112911
Elevation-28 m76 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuToronto
City population2,300,5002,794,356
People per km²1,0754,434
Museums within 10 km5032
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months1 month

Where else could you go?

Every comparison below shares a destination with this one, so you can follow Baku or Toronto somewhere new.

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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.