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Grote Markt and the Brabo Fountain, Antwerp
AntwerpGrote Markt and the Brabo Fountain
The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón

Photos: Antwerp by Norbert Jakab, Pexels License; Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Antwerp 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 Antwerp for

  • day trips
  • getting around
  • families

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

Choose Buenos Aires for

  • nightlife
  • prices
  • live music and the arts

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. Antwerp 15, Buenos Aires 7: Antwerp leads by 8 points.
Food & drink. Antwerp 62, Buenos Aires 75: Buenos Aires leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Antwerp 73, Buenos Aires 71: Antwerp leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. Antwerp 56, Buenos Aires 95: Buenos Aires leads by 39 points.
Nature & outdoors. Antwerp 33, Buenos Aires 38: Buenos Aires leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Antwerp 86, Buenos Aires 60: Antwerp leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Antwerp 62, Buenos Aires 52: Antwerp leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Antwerp 75, Buenos Aires 62: Antwerp leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Antwerp 70, Buenos Aires 60: Antwerp leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Antwerp 38, Buenos Aires 55: Buenos Aires leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Antwerp 58, Buenos Aires 75: Buenos Aires leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Antwerp 30, Buenos Aires 28: Antwerp leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Antwerp and Buenos Aires.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Antwerp
55match

Wins on day trips and getting around with your weighting.

Buenos Aires
57match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Antwerp in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 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

Antwerp 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.

Antwerp's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Uccle.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Antwerp: 1991-2020 normals, Antwerpen / Deurne (5.2 km from centre). Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureAntwerpBuenos Aires
Official languageFrench, German, DutchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112117 or 911
Elevation7 m25 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)36 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAntwerpBuenos Aires
City population529,2473,121,707
People per km²2,54215,355
Museums within 10 km3876
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km91
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.