VacationSelector

Buenos Aires or Cologne?

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 beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Cologne
57
match

Wins on nature & day trips and places to eat 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 AiresCologne
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.33
Buenos AiresCologne
Score330
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km040
Coast distance2 km256 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Cologne leads by 5 points.5
Buenos AiresCologne
Score6772
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1971,142
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2635
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 6 points.6
Buenos AiresCologne
Score6660
Museums within 10 km14847
Museums within 2 km of centre7127
Share of museums within 2 km %4857
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 4 points.4
Buenos AiresCologne
Score6864
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2951,107
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777727
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6066
Nightclubs within 4 km16090
Nature & day trips. Cologne leads by 28 points.28
Buenos AiresCologne
Score4371
Protected land share 50 km %953
Landscape blanket share 50 km %152
Land share of disc %67100
Park area within 2 km69 hectares118 hectares
Good for families. Cologne leads by 3 points.3
Buenos AiresCologne
Score6972
Tourist attractions within 2 km4943
Park area within 2 km69 hectares118 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km66
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 7 points.7
Buenos AiresCologne
Score6053
Notable places within 2 km12581
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 22 points.22
Buenos AiresCologne
Score8260
Price level global45.875.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 15 points.15
Buenos AiresCologne
Score7560
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C6.3 °C to 25 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm48 mm to 81 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
Cologne
6
7
12
16
20
23
25
25
21
15
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Cologne
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Cologne
64
56
53
48
60
76
81
81
67
65
68
72
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Cologne
9
10
12
14
16
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Cologne
2
2
4
6
7
7
7
6
5
3
2
1

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). Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresCologne
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
3 h 0 m
€145-156
CGN · 15 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
1 h 55 m
no fares
CGN · 15 km
BarcelonaBCN
13 h 0 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 0 m
€77-159
CGN · 15 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
6 h 35 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
55 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
DUS · 41 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
55 m
no fares
DUS · 41 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

MeasureBuenos AiresCologne
Official languageSpanishGerman
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m59 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresCologne
City population3,121,7071,024,621
People per km²15,3552,530
Museums within 10 km7540
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre5584
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. 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. 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.