Every car comes from Baku: collect at Baku Airport, or have one delivered to Gabala or Ganja for a charge. It stays in Azerbaijan.
Booking a car in Baku, step by step
Start in Baku
Pick Baku, then choose the airport or a city address to collect the car. Gabala and Ganja appear in the list as well, served by Baku cars.
Read the dollar total
Azerbaijani companies set prices in US dollars and the search converts them to euros. Any airport pickup charge, and the charge for delivery to another city, is added to that total.
Pay the advance to book
The booking rules allow 15 to 20%. On all 25 Azerbaijani quotes we kept on 23 October 2026 it was exactly 15% of the rental price, handover charges excluded.
Pay the company in manat
Hand over the balance when you collect. Cash must be manat, AZN (clause 14); 609 of the 672 Baku cars took a card too (Baku search of 23 October 2026; Baku hire, 16 to 23 Nov 2026).
Car hire around Azerbaijan: the three airports and their cities
Gabala and Ganja have airports of their own, but the cars for both come from Baku (23 October 2026 searches, keys on 16 Nov and back on 23 Nov 2026); road times assume an empty road (routed 23 October 2026).
Baku
The whole fleet lives here: 672 cars in the Baku search, listed for city delivery or at a place called “Rental office”, and none at the airport by default.
Ask for Baku Airport (GYD) and all 672 could be brought there, 283 with no handover charge. The drive in to the Old City takes about 30 min.
Gabala
No cars of its own: all 364 in the Gabala search were Baku cars, each carrying a delivery charge.
Gabala: 230.0 km out of Baku Airport, about 3 h 15 min; the town’s own airport (GBB) is about 25 min away, and from there Sheki is about 1 h 15 min.
Ganja
The same pattern: all 434 cars offered in Ganja were Baku cars, none without a delivery charge.
The further of the two from Baku, about 4 h 45 min from Baku Airport by road. Ganja Airport (GNJ) is about 15 min from the centre, Naftalan about 1 h 15 min.
Picking up at Baku, Gabala or Ganja airport
Prices when the airport is picked as the meeting place each way (23 October 2026 searches, keys on 16 Nov and back on 23 Nov 2026). Every row comes from the same Baku fleet, so they overlap; each charge is already in the car’s total.
Azerbaijani airport
Cars available there
No airport charge
Pickup and return charge on the others
Baku Airport (GYD)
672 of 672
283
€30 to €45 ($34 to $50)
Gabala Airport (GBB)
364 Baku cars
none
€116 to €464
Ganja Airport (GNJ)
434 Baku cars
none
€125 to €464
No cars are based at the airport, but all can come
The default Baku search put no car at the airport: 351 were listed for city delivery and 321 at what the booking partner calls a “Rental office”. Choose the airport, though, and all 672 could be brought there, 283 without a fee.
Where to meet the company
Each Baku company meets you in its own way, car by car. The meeting point is on the voucher, and the company’s details arrive in the email after booking. Keep the phone you booked with on from the day before (clause 10).
Landing at 3 am
We priced 8 Baku Airport cars a second time on 23 October 2026, collecting and returning at 03:00, for a Baku hire beginning 16 November. All 8 stayed bookable, and 5 added a night fee, visible before booking. Give your real landing time.
Driving into Baku
The airport’s full name, as Azerbaijan Airlines gives it, is Baku Heydar Aliyev International Airport. From the airport to the Old City is 25.5 km, about 30 min with no traffic (routed 23 October 2026).
Cancel up to 7 days before the hire starts and there is no penalty; for luxury cars and convertibles it is 30 days. Booking the late-cancellation option shortens that to 24 hours; 529 of 672 Baku cars had it (Baku search of 23 October 2026; Baku hire, 16 to 23 Nov 2026).
Cancellation goes by email to the support address in the booking rules: subject “Cancel”, voucher attached. Your advance comes back inside 14 days, but the 6% fee for the payment service never comes back.
Cancel after the deadline, or miss the handover at Baku Airport or your city address, and the advance goes.
Need new dates or a different model? Cancel, then book again in the Baku search; the original car is freed for others.
505 of 672 Baku cars were listed “or similar”, so you may get a comparable model; on the other 167 you get exactly the model shown.
If force majeure (a breakdown counts) means the company cannot provide your car, it owes you the same class or higher, same price, same terms.
A Baku hire is billed in whole days of 24 hours (clause 1); to extend, tell the company in advance (clause 2). Return it filled to the level on the pickup gauge, or the company bills the shortfall at its own rates (clause 3).
Baku and Azerbaijan rental questions
Does a Baku rental need a credit card?
None of the 672 Baku cars required one (Baku search of 23 October 2026; Baku hire, 16 to 23 Nov 2026). Clause 15 lets a company require an embossed credit card with the main driver as cardholder, so check the listing and voucher.
Can I find a deposit-free car in Baku?
On 99 of the 672 Baku cars (Baku search of 23 October 2026; Baku hire, 16 to 23 Nov 2026). On the others the deposit is shown before booking, and on some it drops to zero with Full Coverage Plus.
Why dollars, and which currency do I pay in?
Azerbaijani companies price in US dollars; euro figures are conversions that shift with the rate. The advance on every quote we kept (23 October 2026) was 15% of the rental price. The rest is paid at handover, in manat if cash (clause 14).
Will the car be waiting at Baku Airport?
If you choose the airport, yes: all 672 Baku cars could be brought to Baku Airport (GYD), 283 free and the rest for €30 to €45 for both ends (23 October 2026 searches, keys on 16 Nov and back on 23 Nov 2026). The fee is in the total.
Are there hire cars in Gabala or Ganja?
Only Baku cars delivered there. All 364 in the Gabala search and all 434 in the Ganja search came from Baku, each with a delivery fee in its total (23 October 2026 searches, keys on 16 Nov and back on 23 Nov 2026).
Can I drive an Azerbaijani hire car into Georgia?
No: clause 9 forbids crossing the border, and a Baku to Tbilisi one-way returned no cars (Baku search of 23 October 2026; Baku hire, 16 to 23 Nov 2026). UK travel advice, as we read it on 23 Oct 2026, says the land border with Georgia is temporarily closed.
Is Khinalug, Nakhchivan or Nagorno-Karabakh allowed?
Clause 8 rules all three out by name, roads to them included, and bans any unpaved road. A four-wheel-drive car is bound the same way.
How long can I drive in Azerbaijan on a UK licence?
The UK’s travel advice for Azerbaijan, as we read it on 23 Oct 2026, says UK licence holders need an Azerbaijani licence, issued through the ASAN Service offices, after one month. For the hire itself, clause 13 asks for a valid national licence with Latin-script details.