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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
The white medina above the harbour walls, Essaouira
EssaouiraThe white medina above the harbour walls

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Essaouira by Manel Cusido, Pexels License.

Buenos Aires or Essaouira?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Essaouira for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Essaouira’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, Essaouira 47: Essaouira leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Essaouira 44: Buenos Aires leads by 31 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Essaouira 48: Buenos Aires leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Essaouira 14: Buenos Aires leads by 81 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Essaouira 57: Essaouira leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Essaouira 17: Buenos Aires leads by 43 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Essaouira 42: Buenos Aires leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Essaouira 58: Buenos Aires leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Essaouira 44: Buenos Aires leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Essaouira 74: Essaouira leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Essaouira 28: Buenos Aires leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Essaouira 66: Essaouira leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Essaouira.

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.

Essaouira
45match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

Essaouira in July

22 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Essaouira 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.

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). Essaouira: 1991-2020 normals, Essaouira (1.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresEssaouira
Official languageSpanishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1
Emergency number117 or 911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation25 m11 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsEssaouira-Mogador Airport (ESU)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresEssaouira
City population3,121,70782,962
People per km²15,35516,592
Museums within 10 km762
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.