VacationSelector

Brussels or Buenos Aires?

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

Your match

Brussels
56
match

Wins on places to eat and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
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.

BrusselsBuenos Aires
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.33
BrusselsBuenos Aires
Score033
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance56 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Brussels leads by 14 points.14
BrusselsBuenos Aires
Score8167
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,7791,197
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4426
Museums & heritage. Brussels leads by 14 points.14
BrusselsBuenos Aires
Score8066
Museums within 10 km120148
Museums within 2 km of centre5971
Share of museums within 2 km %4948
Unesco sites within 50 km101
Nightlife. Brussels and Buenos Aires are level on 68.
BrusselsBuenos Aires
Score6868
Drinking venues within 4 km1,4141,295
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre862777
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6160
Nightclubs within 4 km84160
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 12 points.12
BrusselsBuenos Aires
Score3143
Protected land share 50 km %69
Landscape blanket share 50 km %11
Land share of disc %10067
Park area within 2 km65 hectares69 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 13 points.13
BrusselsBuenos Aires
Score5669
Tourist attractions within 2 km2849
Park area within 2 km65 hectares69 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km26
Sights concentration. Brussels leads by 13 points.13
BrusselsBuenos Aires
Score7360
Notable places within 2 km254125
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 22 points.22
BrusselsBuenos Aires
Score6082
Price level global76.245.8
Daily budget€180
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 18 points.18
BrusselsBuenos Aires
Score5775
Monthly daytime high6.1 °C to 23.3 °C14.7 °C to 28.5 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 90 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
Brussels
6
7
11
15
18
21
23
23
20
15
10
6
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Sea temperature, °C
Brussels
No coastline within reach
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Rainfall, mm
Brussels
77
67
59
47
61
72
80
90
67
71
75
89
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Daylight, hours per day
Brussels
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Brussels
2
2
4
6
6
7
7
6
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. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBrusselsBuenos Aires
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-170
BRU · 11 km
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 5 m
€87-136
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
12 h 0 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
2 h 40 m
€283-314
EZE · 28 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 35 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 55 m
€47-116
BRU · 11 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 10 m
€161-193
BRU · 11 km
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€98-165
1 stop
BRU · 11 km
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
€138-162
2 stops
BRU · 11 km
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 45 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
11 h 15 m
no fares
BRU · 11 km
23 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 2026-10, 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

MeasureBrusselsBuenos 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
Elevation70 m25 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 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

MeasureBrusselsBuenos Aires
City population195,5463,121,707
People per km²5,90815,355
Museums within 10 km10575
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km101
Distinct cuisines in the centre10955
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.