VacationSelector

Bangkok 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, 1 point apart

Bangkok
62
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Buenos Aires
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage 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.

BangkokBuenos Aires
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 7 points.7
BangkokBuenos Aires
Score4033
Swim season months124
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance23 km2 km
Water distance23 km2 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 16 points.16
BangkokBuenos Aires
Score8367
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,9571,197
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2626
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.20
BangkokBuenos Aires
Score4666
Museums within 10 km103148
Museums within 2 km of centre3071
Share of museums within 2 km %2948
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 15 points.15
BangkokBuenos Aires
Score8368
Drinking venues within 4 km3,3831,295
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396777
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4160
Nightclubs within 4 km72160
Nature & day trips. Bangkok leads by 8 points.8
BangkokBuenos Aires
Score5143
Protected land share 50 km %—9
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %8367
Park area within 2 km42 hectares69 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 12 points.12
BangkokBuenos Aires
Score5769
Tourist attractions within 2 km3149
Park area within 2 km42 hectares69 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km46
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 12 points.12
BangkokBuenos Aires
Score4860
Notable places within 2 km62125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 11 points.11
BangkokBuenos Aires
Score9382
Price level global29.745.8
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 19 points.19
BangkokBuenos Aires
Score5675
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C14.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm50 mm to 135 mm
Dry months30
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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokBuenos Aires
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
4 h 5 m
€176-184
BKK · 26 km
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 5 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 15 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 30 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
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

MeasureBangkokBuenos Aires
Official languageThaiSpanish
CurrencyBaht (THB)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199117 or 911
Elevation2 m25 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year–16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokBuenos Aires
City population5,676,6483,121,707
People per km²3,61915,355
Museums within 10 km5975
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre9155
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.