VacationSelector

Belfast or Buenos Aires?

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

Your match

Belfast
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and value for money 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.

BelfastBuenos Aires
Beaches & swimming. Belfast leads by 15 points.15
BelfastBuenos Aires
Score4833
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km100
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.11
BelfastBuenos Aires
Score5667
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4321,197
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3126
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 37 points.37
BelfastBuenos Aires
Score2966
Museums within 10 km18148
Museums within 2 km of centre671
Share of museums within 2 km %3348
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.20
BelfastBuenos Aires
Score4868
Drinking venues within 4 km5501,295
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre348777
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6360
Nightclubs within 4 km29160
Nature & day trips. Belfast leads by 10 points.10
BelfastBuenos Aires
Score5343
Protected land share 50 km %199
Landscape blanket share 50 km %131
Land share of disc %6567
Park area within 2 km68 hectares69 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 21 points.21
BelfastBuenos Aires
Score4869
Tourist attractions within 2 km1649
Park area within 2 km68 hectares69 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km26
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 18 points.18
BelfastBuenos Aires
Score4260
Notable places within 2 km43125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 28 points.28
BelfastBuenos Aires
Score5482
Price level global84.945.8
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 24 points.24
BelfastBuenos Aires
Score5175
Monthly daytime high6.9 °C to 19 °C14.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall55 mm to 89 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
Belfast
7
8
10
12
15
18
19
19
17
13
10
7
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Sea temperature, °C
Belfast
9
8
8
8
9
11
12
13
14
14
12
11
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Rainfall, mm
Belfast
74
62
60
56
55
65
74
86
67
89
87
85
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Daylight, hours per day
Belfast
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
7
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Belfast
2
2
3
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
2
2
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. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBelfastBuenos Aires
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 15 m
€72-142
BHD · 4 km
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
6 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
MadridMAD
2 h 25 m
€66-101
1 stop
DUB · 132 km
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
8 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
no fares
BFS · 20 km
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHD · 4 km
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 55 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
CancunCUN
9 h 30 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 km
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 40 m
no fares
DUB · 132 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

MeasureBelfastBuenos Aires
Official languageEnglishSpanish
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112 or 999117 or 911
Elevation3 m25 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastBuenos Aires
City population345,0063,121,707
People per km²3,00015,355
Museums within 10 km875
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre4455
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone4 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). 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. 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.