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Athens or Buenos Aires?

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

Your match

Athens
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

AthensBuenos Aires
Beaches & swimming. Athens leads by 15 points.15
AthensBuenos Aires
Score4833
Swim season months54
Beaches 10 km140
Coast distance6 km2 km
Water distance6 km2 km
Places to eat. Athens leads by 2 points.2
AthensBuenos Aires
Score6967
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4311,197
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2526
Museums & heritage. Athens leads by 7 points.7
AthensBuenos Aires
Score7366
Museums within 10 km122148
Museums within 2 km of centre7871
Share of museums within 2 km %6448
Unesco sites within 50 km21
Nightlife. Athens leads by 13 points.13
AthensBuenos Aires
Score8168
Drinking venues within 4 km2,7181,295
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,354777
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5060
Nightclubs within 4 km136160
Nature & day trips. Athens leads by 2 points.2
AthensBuenos Aires
Score4543
Protected land share 50 km %59
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %5067
Park area within 2 km128 hectares69 hectares
Good for families. Athens leads by 2 points.2
AthensBuenos Aires
Score7169
Tourist attractions within 2 km6849
Park area within 2 km128 hectares69 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km16
Sights concentration. Athens leads by 15 points.15
AthensBuenos Aires
Score7560
Notable places within 2 km291125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 8 points.8
AthensBuenos Aires
Score7482
Price level global55.845.8
Daily budget€125
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 1 points.1
AthensBuenos Aires
Score7475
Monthly daytime high13.4 °C to 34.5 °C14.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall6 mm to 86 mm50 mm to 135 mm
Dry months70
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
Athens
13
14
17
21
27
32
34
35
30
24
19
15
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Sea temperature, °C
Athens
15
15
15
16
19
22
25
26
25
23
20
17
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Rainfall, mm
Athens
59
46
41
31
19
7
7
6
24
39
74
86
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Daylight, hours per day
Athens
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Athens
5
5
7
8
10
12
13
12
9
7
5
4
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. Athens: 1991-2020 normals, Athens / Athenai / Pláka (2.2 km from centre). Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAthensBuenos Aires
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 30 m
€115-327
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
MadridMAD
3 h 30 m
€156-172
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 55 m
€97-139
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 20 m
€95-237
ATH · 20 km
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
3 h 10 m
€162-235
ATH · 20 km
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 0 m
€565-638
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 50 m
€174-212
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 15 m
€202-223
1 stop
ATH · 20 km
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
4 h 30 m
€286-308
ATH · 20 km
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
10 h 45 m
no fares
ATH · 20 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

MeasureAthensBuenos Aires
Official languageGreekSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112117 or 911
Elevation74 m25 m
Main airportAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International Airport (ATH)20 km from centre171 non-stop destinationsEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAthensBuenos Aires
City population643,4523,121,707
People per km²16,49915,355
Museums within 10 km8875
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21
Distinct cuisines in the centre8255
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months4 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.