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Buenos Aires or Dubai?

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 museums & heritage and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Dubai
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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 AiresDubai
Beaches & swimming. Dubai leads by 67 points.67
Buenos AiresDubai
Score33100
Swim season months412
Beaches 10 km052
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 1 points.1
Buenos AiresDubai
Score6766
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1971,086
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2626
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 28 points.28
Buenos AiresDubai
Score6638
Museums within 10 km14826
Museums within 2 km of centre7118
Share of museums within 2 km %4869
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 15 points.15
Buenos AiresDubai
Score6853
Drinking venues within 4 km1,295601
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6051
Nightclubs within 4 km16084
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 25 points.25
Buenos AiresDubai
Score4318
Protected land share 50 km %94
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %6752
Park area within 2 km69 hectares13 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.20
Buenos AiresDubai
Score6949
Tourist attractions within 2 km4937
Park area within 2 km69 hectares13 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km64
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 23 points.23
Buenos AiresDubai
Score6037
Notable places within 2 km12533
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 13 points.13
Buenos AiresDubai
Score8269
Price level global45.863.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 9 points.9
Buenos AiresDubai
Score7566
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C24.5 °C to 42.1 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm0 mm to 21 mm
Dry months012
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
Dubai
25
26
29
34
38
41
42
42
40
36
31
27
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Dubai
23
22
23
25
29
31
33
33
33
31
28
25
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Dubai
21
6
11
7
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
18
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Dubai
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Dubai
No sunshine record

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). Dubai: 1991-2020 normals, Dubai International Airport (3.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresDubai
Rio de JaneiroGIG, SDU, RRJ
3 h 0 m
€225-302
EZE · 28 km
14 h 40 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
2 h 40 m
€283-314
EZE · 28 km
15 h 0 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
4 h 15 m
€175-294
DXB · 7 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
7 h 10 m
€226-241
DXB · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
13 h 35 m
€476-487
DXB · 7 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
9 h 5 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
15 h 30 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
6 h 45 m
€334-439
DXB · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
5 h 45 m
no fares
DXB · 7 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
8 h 15 m
no fares
DXB · 7 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 AiresDubai
Official languageSpanishArabic
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)UAE Dirham (AED)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCG220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+4
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m0 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsDubai International Airport (DXB)7 km from centre292 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresDubai
City population3,121,7073,944,751
People per km²15,355
Museums within 10 km7514
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5552
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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. 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.