VacationSelector

Atlanta or Buenos Aires?

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

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on value for money and good for families 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.

AtlantaBuenos Aires
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.33
AtlantaBuenos Aires
Score033
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance373 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 8 points.8
AtlantaBuenos Aires
Score5967
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7391,197
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2326
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 31 points.31
AtlantaBuenos Aires
Score3566
Museums within 10 km41148
Museums within 2 km of centre1671
Share of museums within 2 km %3948
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 19 points.19
AtlantaBuenos Aires
Score4968
Drinking venues within 4 km5311,295
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284777
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5360
Nightclubs within 4 km46160
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 12 points.12
AtlantaBuenos Aires
Score3143
Protected land share 50 km %19
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %10067
Park area within 2 km113 hectares69 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 37 points.37
AtlantaBuenos Aires
Score3269
Tourist attractions within 2 km249
Park area within 2 km113 hectares69 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km16
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.20
AtlantaBuenos Aires
Score4060
Notable places within 2 km39125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 39 points.39
AtlantaBuenos Aires
Score4382
Price level global10045.8
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 8 points.8
AtlantaBuenos Aires
Score6775
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C14.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 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
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
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. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaBuenos Aires
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
Rio de JaneiroGIG, SDU, RRJ
9 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 0 m
€225-302
EZE · 28 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
1 h 50 m
€63-107
ATL · 14 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
9 h 30 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 40 m
€283-314
EZE · 28 km
SantiagoSCL
9 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 0 m
€156-221
EZE · 28 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
2 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
MadridMAD
8 h 50 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
LimaLIM
6 h 45 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
4 h 25 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 5 m
€69-120
ATL · 14 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 25 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
7 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 2026-09 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

MeasureAtlantaBuenos Aires
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911117 or 911
Elevation225 m25 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaBuenos Aires
City population498,7153,121,707
People per km²1,43315,355
Museums within 10 km2775
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre5655
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.