VacationSelector

Boston or Buenos Aires?

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

Your match

Boston
55
match

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

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on value for money and museums & heritage 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.

BostonBuenos Aires
Beaches & swimming. Boston leads by 27 points.27
BostonBuenos Aires
Score6033
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km680
Coast distance1 km2 km
Water distance1 km2 km
Places to eat. Boston leads by 6 points.6
BostonBuenos Aires
Score7367
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,4521,197
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3226
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 23 points.23
BostonBuenos Aires
Score4366
Museums within 10 km79148
Museums within 2 km of centre2771
Share of museums within 2 km %3448
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 10 points.10
BostonBuenos Aires
Score5868
Drinking venues within 4 km8861,295
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre513777
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5860
Nightclubs within 4 km43160
Nature & day trips. Boston leads by 10 points.10
BostonBuenos Aires
Score5343
Protected land share 50 km %129
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %7767
Park area within 2 km116 hectares69 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 16 points.16
BostonBuenos Aires
Score5369
Tourist attractions within 2 km2849
Park area within 2 km116 hectares69 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km06
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 2 points.2
BostonBuenos Aires
Score5860
Notable places within 2 km111125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 39 points.39
BostonBuenos Aires
Score4382
Price level global10045.8
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 19 points.19
BostonBuenos Aires
Score5675
Monthly daytime high2.9 °C to 28 °C14.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall79 mm to 107 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
Boston
3
4
8
14
19
25
28
27
23
17
11
6
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Sea temperature, °C
Boston
5
3
4
6
10
15
18
19
17
14
10
8
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Rainfall, mm
Boston
84
79
105
91
83
99
82
80
90
101
93
107
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Daylight, hours per day
Boston
10
11
12
13
15
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
Boston
5
5
6
7
8
8
9
9
7
5
5
4
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. Boston: 1991-2020 normals, Boston Logan International (3.5 km from centre). Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBostonBuenos Aires
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
1 h 0 m
€192-203
BOS · 4 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
MadridMAD
7 h 5 m
€570
BOS · 4 km
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
9 h 45 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
2 h 40 m
€283-314
EZE · 28 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
3 h 5 m
€254-335
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
9 h 5 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
6 h 50 m
€536-548
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
1 h 30 m
€211-283
1 stop
BOS · 4 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
Punta CanaPUJ
3 h 50 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
7 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
AmsterdamAMS
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOS · 4 km
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
13 h 15 m
no fares
BOS · 4 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

MeasureBostonBuenos Aires
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911117 or 911
Elevation43 m25 m
Main airportBoston Logan International Airport (BOS)4 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBostonBuenos Aires
City population675,6473,121,707
People per km²2,91015,355
Museums within 10 km5175
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre7455
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.