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Berlin 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

Berlin
62
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Buenos Aires
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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.

BerlinBuenos Aires
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.33
BerlinBuenos Aires
Score033
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km170
Coast distance142 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Berlin leads by 3 points.3
BerlinBuenos Aires
Score7067
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1171,197
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3326
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 13 points.13
BerlinBuenos Aires
Score7966
Museums within 10 km200148
Museums within 2 km of centre8171
Share of museums within 2 km %4148
Unesco sites within 50 km41
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 8 points.8
BerlinBuenos Aires
Score7668
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1141,295
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719777
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3460
Nightclubs within 4 km135160
Nature & day trips. Berlin leads by 6 points.6
BerlinBuenos Aires
Score4943
Protected land share 50 km %209
Landscape blanket share 50 km %161
Land share of disc %10067
Park area within 2 km141 hectares69 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 7 points.7
BerlinBuenos Aires
Score7669
Tourist attractions within 2 km5449
Park area within 2 km141 hectares69 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km56
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 24 points.24
BerlinBuenos Aires
Score8460
Notable places within 2 km486125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 22 points.22
BerlinBuenos Aires
Score6082
Price level global75.945.8
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 15 points.15
BerlinBuenos Aires
Score6075
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C14.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Sea temperature, °C
Berlin
No coastline within reach
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinBuenos Aires
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
€158-204
1 stop
BER · 19 km
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€126-154
1 stop
BER · 19 km
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 25 m
€101-133
BER · 19 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 5 m
no fares
BER · 19 km
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
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

MeasureBerlinBuenos Aires
Official languageGermanSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112117 or 911
Elevation34 m25 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinBuenos Aires
City population3,782,2023,121,707
People per km²4,24415,355
Museums within 10 km15875
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km41
Distinct cuisines in the centre8655
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). 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. 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. 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.