VacationSelector

Buenos Aires or Dresden?

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Dresden
48
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

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 AiresDresden
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.33
Buenos AiresDresden
Score330
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance2 km267 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 6 points.6
Buenos AiresDresden
Score6761
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,197422
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2642
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 12 points.12
Buenos AiresDresden
Score6654
Museums within 10 km14866
Museums within 2 km of centre7134
Share of museums within 2 km %4852
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 26 points.26
Buenos AiresDresden
Score6842
Drinking venues within 4 km1,295359
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777265
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6074
Nightclubs within 4 km16043
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 4 points.4
Buenos AiresDresden
Score4339
Protected land share 50 km %914
Landscape blanket share 50 km %19
Land share of disc %67100
Park area within 2 km69 hectares80 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 10 points.10
Buenos AiresDresden
Score6959
Tourist attractions within 2 km4932
Park area within 2 km69 hectares80 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km62
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 7 points.7
Buenos AiresDresden
Score6053
Notable places within 2 km12582
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 22 points.22
Buenos AiresDresden
Score8260
Price level global45.875.9
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 13 points.13
Buenos AiresDresden
Score7562
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C4 °C to 26.2 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm31 mm to 83 mm
Dry months04
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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D
Daytime high, °C
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Dresden
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Dresden
9
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
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
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). Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresDresden
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
BarcelonaBCN
13 h 0 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
DRS · 10 km
Punta CanaPUJ
7 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 112 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 AiresDresden
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 m126 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresDresden
City population3,121,707564,904
People per km²15,3551,720
Museums within 10 km7570
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5577
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.