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San Petronio on Piazza Maggiore, Bologna
BolognaSan Petronio on Piazza Maggiore
The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón

Photos: Bologna by Vanni Lazzari, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bologna or Buenos Aires?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bologna for

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Bologna’s own page.

Choose Buenos Aires for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Buenos Aires’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bologna 30, Buenos Aires 7: Bologna leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Bologna 82, Buenos Aires 75: Bologna leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Bologna 77, Buenos Aires 71: Bologna leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Bologna 58, Buenos Aires 95: Buenos Aires leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bologna 52, Buenos Aires 38: Bologna leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Bologna 95, Buenos Aires 60: Bologna leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Bologna 50, Buenos Aires 52: Buenos Aires leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Bologna 76, Buenos Aires 62: Bologna leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Bologna 55, Buenos Aires 60: Buenos Aires leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Bologna 48, Buenos Aires 55: Buenos Aires leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bologna 60, Buenos Aires 75: Buenos Aires leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bologna 40, Buenos Aires 28: Bologna leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bologna and Buenos Aires.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bologna
Best match
60match

Wins on day trips and beaches with your weighting.

Buenos Aires
57match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bologna in July

32 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Buenos Aires in July

15 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
50 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Bologna has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Bologna's sunshine is measured 82 km from the centre, at Cervia.

Temperature and rainfall are 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).

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 centre98 non-stop destinationsEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 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 km6876
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.