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Amalfi and its harbour below the cliff, Amalfi
AmalfiAmalfi and its harbour below the cliff
The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón

Photos: Amalfi by Oleksandra Zelena, Pexels License; Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Amalfi or Buenos Aires?

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 Amalfi for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

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

Choose Buenos Aires for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Buenos Aires’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. Amalfi 64, Buenos Aires 7: Amalfi leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Amalfi 48, Buenos Aires 75: Buenos Aires leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Amalfi 36, Buenos Aires 71: Buenos Aires leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Amalfi 12, Buenos Aires 95: Buenos Aires leads by 83 points.
Nature & outdoors. Amalfi 82, Buenos Aires 38: Amalfi leads by 44 points.
Day trips. Amalfi 88, Buenos Aires 60: Amalfi leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Amalfi 28, Buenos Aires 52: Buenos Aires leads by 24 points.
Getting around. Amalfi 48, Buenos Aires 62: Buenos Aires leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Amalfi 34, Buenos Aires 60: Buenos Aires leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Amalfi 18, Buenos Aires 55: Buenos Aires leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Amalfi 22, Buenos Aires 75: Buenos Aires leads by 53 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Amalfi 32, Buenos Aires 28: Amalfi leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Amalfi and Buenos Aires.

Your match

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

Amalfi
43match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Amalfi in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
28 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Buenos Aires in July

15 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
50 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
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

Amalfi's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

Amalfi 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. Amalfi: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (64.7 km from centre). Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAmalfiBuenos Aires
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112117 or 911
Elevation6 m25 m
Main airportNaples International Airport (NAP)38 km from centre131 non-stop destinationsEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmalfiBuenos Aires
City population4,7293,121,707
People per km²83015,355
Museums within 10 km876
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.