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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
TromsoThe Arctic Cathedral

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Tromso by Moyan Brenn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Baku or Tromso?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose Tromso for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Tromso’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, Tromso 8: Baku leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Tromso 36: Baku leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Tromso 27: Baku leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Tromso 38: Baku leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Tromso 92: Tromso leads by 62 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Tromso 14: Baku leads by 31 points.
Good for families. Baku and Tromso are level on 45.
Getting around. Baku 58, Tromso 60: Tromso leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Tromso 15: Baku leads by 33 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Tromso 11: Baku leads by 53 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Tromso 32: Baku leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Tromso 38: Tromso leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Tromso.

Your match

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

Baku
Best match
48match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Tromso
35match

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

Tromso in July

16 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
10 °Csea
24 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BakuTromso

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuTromso
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation-28 m20 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuTromso
City population2,300,50079,943
People per km²1,07532
Museums within 10 km508
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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). 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.