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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Cannes?

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 Buenos Aires for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Cannes for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Cannes’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. Buenos Aires 7, Cannes 80: Cannes leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Cannes 55: Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Cannes 38: Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Cannes 42: Buenos Aires leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Cannes 72: Cannes leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Cannes 86: Cannes leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Cannes 56: Cannes leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Cannes 68: Cannes leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires and Cannes are level on 60.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Cannes 22: Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Cannes 38: Buenos Aires leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Cannes 42: Cannes leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Cannes.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Buenos Aires
57match

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

Cannes
55match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

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

Cannes in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre). Cannes: 2004-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cannes (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresCannes
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m0 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresCannes
City population3,121,70774,350
People per km²15,3553,793
Museums within 10 km7616
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 months

Where else could you go?

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.