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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
Vilnius Cathedral, Vilnius
VilniusVilnius Cathedral

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; Vilnius by Scotch Mist, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Baku or Vilnius?

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

  • beaches
  • food and drink
  • shopping

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

Choose Vilnius for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Vilnius’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, Vilnius 17: Baku leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, Vilnius 50: Baku leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, Vilnius 66: Vilnius leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, Vilnius 46: Vilnius leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, Vilnius 52: Vilnius leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, Vilnius 60: Vilnius leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, Vilnius 44: Baku leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, Vilnius 68: Vilnius leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, Vilnius 38: Baku leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Baku and Vilnius are level on 64.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, Vilnius 54: Vilnius leads by 2 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, Vilnius 34: Vilnius leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and Vilnius.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Baku
48match

Wins on beaches and food and drink with your weighting.

Vilnius
49match

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
No recordsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Vilnius in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
90 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
17 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). Vilnius: 1991-2020 normals, Vilnius (13 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuVilnius
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageLithuanian
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+4UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112112
Elevation-28 m98 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsVilnius International Airport (VNO)6 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuVilnius
City population2,300,500619,405
People per km²1,0751,545
Museums within 10 km5031
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km23
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

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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). 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.