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Buenos Aires or Edinburgh?

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 value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Edinburgh
58
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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 AiresEdinburgh
Beaches & swimming. Edinburgh leads by 22 points.22
Buenos AiresEdinburgh
Score3355
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km020
Coast distance2 km3 km
Water distance2 km3 km
Places to eat. Edinburgh leads by 3 points.3
Buenos AiresEdinburgh
Score6770
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1971,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2635
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 9 points.9
Buenos AiresEdinburgh
Score6657
Museums within 10 km14830
Museums within 2 km of centre7122
Share of museums within 2 km %4873
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 4 points.4
Buenos AiresEdinburgh
Score6864
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2951,193
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777884
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6074
Nightclubs within 4 km16065
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 8 points.8
Buenos AiresEdinburgh
Score4335
Protected land share 50 km %92
Landscape blanket share 50 km %11
Land share of disc %6785
Park area within 2 km69 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Edinburgh leads by 3 points.3
Buenos AiresEdinburgh
Score6972
Tourist attractions within 2 km4987
Park area within 2 km69 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km60
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires and Edinburgh are level on 60.
Buenos AiresEdinburgh
Score6060
Notable places within 2 km125126
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 28 points.28
Buenos AiresEdinburgh
Score8254
Price level global45.884.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 24 points.24
Buenos AiresEdinburgh
Score7551
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C6.6 °C to 18.8 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm43 mm to 80 mm
Dry months00
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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A
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Daytime high, °C
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Edinburgh
7
7
9
12
14
17
19
19
17
13
9
7
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Edinburgh
7
6
6
7
10
12
14
14
13
12
10
8
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Edinburgh
62
47
47
43
49
63
65
69
55
80
68
63
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Edinburgh
8
10
12
14
16
18
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Edinburgh
2
3
4
5
6
5
5
5
4
3
3
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). Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresEdinburgh
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
1 h 20 m
€41-45
EDI · 11 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
EDI · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
1 h 40 m
€78-108
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
2 h 55 m
€99-141
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 25 m
€117-158
EDI · 11 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
4 h 0 m
€201-242
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
BarcelonaBCN
13 h 0 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 40 m
€58-103
1 stop
EDI · 11 km
CancunCUN
8 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
GLA · 78 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
7 h 30 m
no fares
EDI · 11 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 AiresEdinburgh
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112 or 999
Elevation25 m47 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre158 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresEdinburgh
City population3,121,707488,050
People per km²15,3551,884
Museums within 10 km7532
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre5578
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.