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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
The Hassan II Mosque and its minaret, Casablanca
CasablancaThe Hassan II Mosque and its minaret

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Casablanca by Samir Bakkah, Pexels License.

Buenos Aires or Casablanca?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Casablanca for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Casablanca’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, Casablanca 50: Casablanca leads by 43 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Casablanca 60: Buenos Aires leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Casablanca 52: Buenos Aires leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Casablanca 44: Buenos Aires leads by 51 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Casablanca 33: Buenos Aires leads by 5 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Casablanca 55: Buenos Aires leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Casablanca 38: Buenos Aires leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Casablanca 42: Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Casablanca 50: Buenos Aires leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Casablanca 68: Casablanca leads by 13 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Casablanca 38: Buenos Aires leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Casablanca 52: Casablanca leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Casablanca.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

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

Casablanca
49match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

Casablanca in July

26 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
22 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresCasablanca

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). Casablanca: 1991-2020 normals, Casablanca (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresCasablanca
Official languageSpanishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1
Emergency number117 or 911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation25 m115 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsMohammed V International Airport (CMN)26 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresCasablanca
City population3,121,7073,215,935
People per km²15,3558,375
Museums within 10 km763
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.