VacationSelector

Bruges or Buenos Aires?

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

Your match

Bruges
44
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on nightlife and beaches & swimming 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.

BrugesBuenos Aires
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 25 points.25
BrugesBuenos Aires
Score833
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km10
Coast distance14 km2 km
Water distance14 km2 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 10 points.10
BrugesBuenos Aires
Score5767
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4431,197
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3226
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 9 points.9
BrugesBuenos Aires
Score5766
Museums within 10 km30148
Museums within 2 km of centre2471
Share of museums within 2 km %8048
Unesco sites within 50 km31
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 34 points.34
BrugesBuenos Aires
Score3468
Drinking venues within 4 km2921,295
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre233777
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8060
Nightclubs within 4 km8160
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 17 points.17
BrugesBuenos Aires
Score2643
Protected land share 50 km %29
Landscape blanket share 50 km %01
Land share of disc %6567
Park area within 2 km59 hectares69 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 9 points.9
BrugesBuenos Aires
Score6069
Tourist attractions within 2 km5249
Park area within 2 km59 hectares69 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km16
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.20
BrugesBuenos Aires
Score4060
Notable places within 2 km40125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 22 points.22
BrugesBuenos Aires
Score6082
Price level global76.245.8
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 19 points.19
BrugesBuenos Aires
Score5675
Monthly daytime high6.4 °C to 22 °C14.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall35 mm to 79 mm50 mm to 135 mm
Dry months10
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
Bruges
6
7
10
13
17
20
22
22
19
15
10
7
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Sea temperature, °C
Bruges
7
6
7
9
12
15
18
19
18
15
11
8
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Rainfall, mm
Bruges
59
52
44
35
51
64
74
79
72
76
78
74
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Daylight, hours per day
Bruges
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
Bruges
3
3
5
7
8
8
8
7
6
4
3
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. Bruges: 1991-2020 normals, Vlissingen (37.4 km from centre). Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBrugesBuenos Aires
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 94 km
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 94 km
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 94 km
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 94 km
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
2 h 40 m
€283-314
EZE · 28 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 94 km
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
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

MeasureBrugesBuenos Aires
Official languageFrench, German, DutchSpanish
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Argentine Peso (ARS)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112117 or 911
Elevation2 m25 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesBuenos Aires
City population118,5093,121,707
People per km²84015,355
Museums within 10 km3875
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Distinct cuisines in the centre5155
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). 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. 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.