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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
The minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque, Tunis
TunisThe minaret and dome of the Zitouna Mosque

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Tunis by IssamBarhoumi, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Baku or Tunis?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • getting around
  • nightlife

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

Choose Tunis for

  • day trips
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Tunis’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, Tunis 60: Tunis leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Baku and Tunis are level on 60.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Tunis 76: Tunis leads by 14 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Tunis 33: Baku leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Tunis 45: Tunis leads by 15 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Tunis 77: Tunis leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Tunis 38: Baku leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Tunis 48: Baku leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Tunis 50: Tunis leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Tunis 86: Tunis leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Tunis 38: Baku leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Tunis 58: Tunis leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Tunis.

Your match

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

Baku
48match

Wins on live music and the arts and getting around with your weighting.

Tunis
Best match
56match

Wins on day trips 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

Tunis in July

34 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
3 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
25 °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). Tunis: 1991-2020 normals, Tunis-Carthage (6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuTunis
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageArabic
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Tunisian Dinar (TND)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+1
Emergency number102 or 112Police 197, ambulance 190, fire 198
Elevation-28 m4 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsTunis Carthage International Airport (TUN)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuTunis
City population2,300,500602,560
People per km²1,0752,834
Museums within 10 km5016
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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). 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.