VacationSelector

Beijing or Buenos Aires?

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

Your match

Beijing
53
match

Wins on good for families with your weighting.

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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.

BeijingBuenos Aires
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.33
BeijingBuenos Aires
Score033
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance145 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 3 points.3
BeijingBuenos Aires
Score6366
Museums within 10 km95148
Museums within 2 km of centre1571
Share of museums within 2 km %1648
Unesco sites within 50 km61
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 8 points.8
BeijingBuenos Aires
Score3543
Protected land share 50 km %39
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %10067
Park area within 2 km143 hectares69 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 8 points.8
BeijingBuenos Aires
Score7769
Tourist attractions within 2 km4149
Park area within 2 km143 hectares69 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km126
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 10 points.10
BeijingBuenos Aires
Score5060
Notable places within 2 km69125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 3 points.3
BeijingBuenos Aires
Score7982
Price level global4945.8
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 9 points.9
BeijingBuenos Aires
Score6675
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C14.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm50 mm to 135 mm
Dry months80
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Sea temperature, °C
Beijing
No coastline within reach
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingBuenos Aires
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
1 h 55 m
€144-160
PKX · 45 km
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
21 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
2 h 40 m
€283-314
EZE · 28 km
MadridMAD
11 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 0 m
€475-645
PEK · 25 km
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
RomeFCO, CIA
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 5 m
€1,020-1172
2 stops
PEK · 25 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
9 h 50 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
10 h 20 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
AmsterdamAMS
9 h 55 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
10 h 15 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
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

MeasureBeijingBuenos Aires
Official languagePutonghuaSpanish
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119117 or 911
Elevation43 m25 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingBuenos Aires
City population21,893,0953,121,707
People per km²1,33415,355
Museums within 10 km8375
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km61
Distinct cuisines in the centre2955
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.