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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
A painted funicular on the hillside, Valparaiso
ValparaisoA painted funicular on the hillside

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Valparaiso by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Baku or Valparaiso?

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

  • shopping
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Valparaiso for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Valparaiso’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, Valparaiso 36: Baku leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Valparaiso 50: Baku leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Baku and Valparaiso are level on 62.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Valparaiso 56: Valparaiso leads by 14 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Valparaiso 60: Valparaiso leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Valparaiso 63: Valparaiso leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Valparaiso 33: Baku leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Valparaiso 44: Baku leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Valparaiso 30: Baku leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Valparaiso 60: Baku leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Valparaiso 38: Baku leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Valparaiso 18: Baku leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Valparaiso.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Baku
48match

Wins on shopping and getting around with your weighting.

Valparaiso
46match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips 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

Valparaiso in July

15 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
71 mmrain in the month
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Valparaiso has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). Valparaiso: 2010-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Viña Del Mar / Montemar (17 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuValparaiso
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageSpanish
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Chilean Peso (CLP)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCL220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-4, UTC-3 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112Police 133/134, ambulance 131, fire 132
Elevation-28 m21 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL)87 km from centre67 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuValparaiso
City population2,300,500296,655
People per km²1,0756,180
Museums within 10 km5017
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
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. 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.