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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
The skyline and the Rocky Mountains over City Park and Ferril Lake, Denver
DenverThe skyline and the Rocky Mountains over City Park and Ferril Lake

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Denver by Zenhaus, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Denver?

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
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Denver for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Denver’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, Denver 5: Buenos Aires leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Denver 54: Buenos Aires leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Denver 44: Buenos Aires leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Denver 47: Buenos Aires leads by 48 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Denver 84: Denver leads by 46 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Denver 57: Buenos Aires leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Denver 67: Denver leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Denver 40: Buenos Aires leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Denver 44: Buenos Aires leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Denver 36: Buenos Aires leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Denver 66: Buenos Aires leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Denver 40: Denver leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Denver.

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 culture and sights with your weighting.

Denver
49match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families 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

Denver in July

32 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresDenver

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). Denver: 1991-2020 normals, Denver / Stapleton International, Co. (11.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresDenver
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation25 m1,609 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)30 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresDenver
City population3,121,707715,522
People per km²15,3551,783
Museums within 10 km7626
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

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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. 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.

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.