VacationSelector

Amsterdam or Buenos Aires?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Amsterdam
65
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat with your weighting.

Buenos Aires
63
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AmsterdamBuenos Aires
Beaches & swimming. Amsterdam leads by 7 points.7
AmsterdamBuenos Aires
Score4033
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km330
Coast distance24 km2 km
Water distance24 km2 km
Places to eat. Amsterdam leads by 16 points.16
AmsterdamBuenos Aires
Score8367
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,9571,197
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4426
Museums & heritage. Amsterdam leads by 14 points.14
AmsterdamBuenos Aires
Score8066
Museums within 10 km98148
Museums within 2 km of centre6971
Share of museums within 2 km %7048
Unesco sites within 50 km51
Nightlife. Amsterdam leads by 2 points.2
AmsterdamBuenos Aires
Score7068
Drinking venues within 4 km1,5431,295
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,078777
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7060
Nightclubs within 4 km114160
Nature & day trips. Amsterdam leads by 17 points.17
AmsterdamBuenos Aires
Score6043
Protected land share 50 km %219
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %8267
Park area within 2 km49 hectares69 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 1 points.1
AmsterdamBuenos Aires
Score6869
Tourist attractions within 2 km7449
Park area within 2 km49 hectares69 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km36
Sights concentration. Amsterdam leads by 8 points.8
AmsterdamBuenos Aires
Score6860
Notable places within 2 km196125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 24 points.24
AmsterdamBuenos Aires
Score5882
Price level global79.245.8
Daily budget€181—
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 18 points.18
AmsterdamBuenos Aires
Score5775
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.1 °C14.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 85 mm50 mm to 135 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Amsterdam
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
7
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Sea temperature, °C
Amsterdam
6
5
6
8
12
15
17
19
17
15
11
8
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Rainfall, mm
Amsterdam
71
63
58
42
59
71
85
84
78
81
80
84
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Daylight, hours per day
Amsterdam
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Amsterdam
2
3
5
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Amsterdam: 1991-2020 normals, De Bilt (35.3 km from centre). Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAmsterdamBuenos Aires
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€93-112
AMS · 12 km
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
Rio de JaneiroGIG, SDU, RRJ
11 h 55 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
3 h 0 m
€225-302
EZE · 28 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€160-183
AMS · 12 km
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 40 m
€283-314
EZE · 28 km
SantiagoSCL
14 h 45 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
2 h 0 m
€156-221
EZE · 28 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 15 m
€166-175
AMS · 12 km
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
€512-556
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
LimaLIM
13 h 5 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
€318-346
1 stop
AMS · 12 km
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 10 m
no fares
AMS · 12 km
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAmsterdamBuenos Aires
Official languageDutchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112 or 911117 or 911
Elevation-2 m25 m
Main airportAmsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)12 km from centre287 non-stop destinationsEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAmsterdamBuenos Aires
City population921,4683,121,707
People per km²4,20815,355
Museums within 10 km10175
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km51
Distinct cuisines in the centre9855
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.