VacationSelector

Buenos Aires or Cardiff?

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

Your match

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on good for families and value for money with your weighting.

Cardiff
48
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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.

Buenos AiresCardiff
Beaches & swimming. Cardiff leads by 13 points.13
Buenos AiresCardiff
Score3346
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km08
Coast distance2 km2 km
Water distance2 km2 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 7 points.7
Buenos AiresCardiff
Score6760
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,197541
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2632
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 27 points.27
Buenos AiresCardiff
Score6639
Museums within 10 km14861
Museums within 2 km of centre716
Share of museums within 2 km %4810
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.20
Buenos AiresCardiff
Score6848
Drinking venues within 4 km1,295536
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777395
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6074
Nightclubs within 4 km16035
Nature & day trips. Cardiff leads by 7 points.7
Buenos AiresCardiff
Score4350
Protected land share 50 km %918
Landscape blanket share 50 km %115
Land share of disc %6768
Park area within 2 km69 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 37 points.37
Buenos AiresCardiff
Score6932
Tourist attractions within 2 km494
Park area within 2 km69 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km62
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 15 points.15
Buenos AiresCardiff
Score6045
Notable places within 2 km12551
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 28 points.28
Buenos AiresCardiff
Score8254
Price level global45.884.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 21 points.21
Buenos AiresCardiff
Score7554
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C7.7 °C to 20.2 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm49 mm to 87 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
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Cardiff
8
8
10
13
16
18
20
20
18
14
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Cardiff
8
7
8
9
12
15
17
18
17
15
12
9
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Cardiff
77
55
49
54
56
56
61
66
54
87
83
79
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Cardiff
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Cardiff
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
4
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Buenos Aires: 1991-2020 normals, Aeroparque Bs. As. Aerodrome (4.9 km from centre). Cardiff: 1991-2020 normals, Cardiff-Wales Airport (14.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresCardiff
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
2 h 30 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
Punta CanaPUJ
7 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
8 h 40 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
11 h 15 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
CWL · 15 km
BarcelonaBCN
13 h 0 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 5 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
BHX · 146 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
BRS · 34 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
BHX · 146 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBuenos AiresCardiff
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112 or 999
Elevation25 m41 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsCardiff International Airport (CWL)15 km from centre8 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresCardiff
City population3,121,707383,536
People per km²15,3552,734
Museums within 10 km759
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5555
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.