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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
The Campanile, Trinity College, Dublin
DublinThe Campanile, Trinity College

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Dublin by David Kernan, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Dublin?

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

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Dublin for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Dublin’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, Dublin 27: Dublin leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Dublin 50: Buenos Aires leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Dublin 64: Buenos Aires leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Dublin 62: Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Dublin 70: Dublin leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Dublin 72: Dublin leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Dublin 57: Dublin leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Dublin 66: Dublin leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Dublin 54: Buenos Aires leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Dublin 20: Buenos Aires leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Dublin 65: Buenos Aires leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Dublin 25: Buenos Aires leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Dublin.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Dublin
53match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches 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

Dublin in July

20 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
62 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
15 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresDublin

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). Dublin: 1991-2020 normals, Dublin Airport (9.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresDublin
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Irish
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m20 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsDublin Airport (DUB)9 km from centre200 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresDublin
City population3,121,707592,713
People per km²15,3555,154
Museums within 10 km7640
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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. 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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.