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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
Fort Lovrijenac above the sea, Dubrovnik
DubrovnikFort Lovrijenac above the sea

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Dubrovnik by Natalia Semenova, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Dubrovnik?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

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

Choose Dubrovnik for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Dubrovnik’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, Dubrovnik 74: Dubrovnik leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Dubrovnik 47: Buenos Aires leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Dubrovnik 72: Dubrovnik leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Dubrovnik 37: Buenos Aires leads by 58 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Dubrovnik 70: Dubrovnik leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Dubrovnik 66: Dubrovnik leads by 6 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Dubrovnik 50: Buenos Aires leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Dubrovnik 60: Buenos Aires leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Dubrovnik 25: Buenos Aires leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Dubrovnik 28: Buenos Aires leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Dubrovnik 25: Buenos Aires leads by 50 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Dubrovnik 32: Dubrovnik leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Dubrovnik.

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 live music and the arts with your weighting.

Dubrovnik
49match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

Dubrovnik in July

29 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Dubrovnik has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Dubrovnik's sunshine is measured 83 km from the centre, at Mostar.

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). Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresDubrovnik
Official languageSpanishCroatian
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 m10 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre76 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresDubrovnik
City population3,121,70741,562
People per km²15,355-
Museums within 10 km767
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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. 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.