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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
Gastown, Vancouver
VancouverGastown

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

Baku or Vancouver?

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

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

Choose Vancouver for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Vancouver’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, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Vancouver 42: Baku leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Baku and Vancouver are level on 42.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Vancouver 97: Vancouver leads by 67 points.
Day trips. Baku and Vancouver are level on 45.
Good for families. Baku 45, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Vancouver 73: Vancouver leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Vancouver 55: Vancouver leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, Vancouver 27: Baku leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku and Vancouver are level on 52.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Vancouver 50: Vancouver leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Vancouver.

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.

Vancouver
Best match
56match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Vancouver in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuVancouver
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageFrench, English
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112911
Elevation-28 m2 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuVancouver
City population2,300,500662,248
People per km²1,0755,759
Museums within 10 km5026
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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.