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The Flame Towers from the seafront, Baku
BakuThe Flame Towers from the seafront
York Minster from the city walls, York
YorkYork Minster from the city walls

Photos: Baku by Zulfugar Karimov, Pexels License; York by PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Baku or York?

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
  • prices
  • food and drink

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

Choose York for

  • day trips
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on York’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, York 14: Baku leads by 26 points.
Food & drink. Baku 60, York 42: Baku leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Baku 62, York 70: York leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Baku 42, York 36: Baku leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Baku 30, York 62: York leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Baku 45, York 80: York leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Baku 45, York 60: York leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Baku 58, York 72: York leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Baku 48, York 46: Baku leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Baku 64, York 38: Baku leads by 26 points.
Live music & performing arts. Baku 52, York 38: Baku leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Baku 30, York 34: York leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Baku and York.

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 prices with your weighting.

York
49match

Wins on day trips and nature and the outdoors 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

York in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
6 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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Where the figures come from

York 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.

York's sunshine is measured 48 km from the centre, at Leeming.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Baku: 1991-2020 normals, Mashtaga (23.2 km from centre). York: 1991-2020 normals, Linton-On-Ouse (14.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBakuYork
Official languageAzerbaijani, Azerbaijani Sign LanguageEnglish
CurrencyAzerbaijan Manat (AZN)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+4UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number102 or 112112 or 999
Elevation-28 m25 m
Main airportHeydar Aliyev International Airport (GYD)22 km from centre79 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBakuYork
City population2,300,500208,400
People per km²1,075766
Museums within 10 km5024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km22
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. 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.