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Bologna or Buenos Aires?

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

Your match

Bologna
52
match

Wins on museums & heritage with your weighting.

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nightlife 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.

BolognaBuenos Aires
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.33
BolognaBuenos Aires
Score033
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km20
Coast distance74 km2 km
Water distance—2 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 9 points.9
BolognaBuenos Aires
Score5867
Restaurants within 2 km of centre8221,197
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2026
Museums & heritage. Bologna leads by 1 points.1
BolognaBuenos Aires
Score6766
Museums within 10 km58148
Museums within 2 km of centre4371
Share of museums within 2 km %7448
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 15 points.15
BolognaBuenos Aires
Score5368
Drinking venues within 4 km7201,295
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre531777
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7460
Nightclubs within 4 km30160
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 4 points.4
BolognaBuenos Aires
Score3943
Protected land share 50 km %79
Landscape blanket share 50 km %11
Land share of disc %10067
Park area within 2 km119 hectares69 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 14 points.14
BolognaBuenos Aires
Score5569
Tourist attractions within 2 km3249
Park area within 2 km119 hectares69 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km06
Sights concentration. Bologna and Buenos Aires are level on 60.
BolognaBuenos Aires
Score6060
Notable places within 2 km120125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 14 points.14
BolognaBuenos Aires
Score6882
Price level global64.945.8
Daily budget€155—
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 8 points.8
BolognaBuenos Aires
Score6775
Monthly daytime high7 °C to 31.5 °C14.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 75 mm50 mm to 135 mm
Dry months50
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
Bologna
7
10
15
19
24
29
32
32
26
19
13
8
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Sea temperature, °C
Bologna
No coastline within reach
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Rainfall, mm
Bologna
36
36
49
54
50
37
34
40
75
75
70
58
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Daylight, hours per day
Bologna
9
10
12
13
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Bologna
3
4
6
7
8
10
11
10
7
5
3
3
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. Bologna: 1991-2020 normals, Bologna / Borgo Panigale (5.5 km from centre). Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBolognaBuenos Aires
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 0 m
€114-267
BLQ · 6 km
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€154-191
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€158-262
1 stop
BLQ · 6 km
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€42-75
BLQ · 6 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 138 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
no fares
BLQ · 6 km
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 138 km
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
CancunCUN
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 106 km
8 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureBolognaBuenos Aires
Official languageItalianSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112117 or 911
Elevation54 m25 m
Main airportBologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)6 km from centre97 non-stop destinationsEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBolognaBuenos Aires
City population387,9713,121,707
People per km²2,75415,355
Museums within 10 km6675
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre6255
Swim season, months above 21 °C–4 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.