VacationSelector

Buenos Aires or Faro?

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 nightlife and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Faro
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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 AiresFaro
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 28 points.28
Buenos AiresFaro
Score3361
Swim season months43
Beaches 10 km013
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 23 points.23
Buenos AiresFaro
Score6744
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,197255
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2622
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 44 points.44
Buenos AiresFaro
Score6622
Museums within 10 km1489
Museums within 2 km of centre718
Share of museums within 2 km %4889
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 47 points.47
Buenos AiresFaro
Score6821
Drinking venues within 4 km1,295143
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777123
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6086
Nightclubs within 4 km1608
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 14 points.14
Buenos AiresFaro
Score4357
Protected land share 50 km %911
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %6742
Park area within 2 km69 hectares34 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.33
Buenos AiresFaro
Score6936
Tourist attractions within 2 km4910
Park area within 2 km69 hectares34 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km62
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 38 points.38
Buenos AiresFaro
Score6022
Notable places within 2 km12514
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 8 points.8
Buenos AiresFaro
Score8274
Price level global45.855.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro leads by 8 points.8
Buenos AiresFaro
Score7583
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C16.3 °C to 29 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm1 mm to 102 mm
Dry months06
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6

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). Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresFaro
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
1 h 20 m
€46-52
FAO · 3 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
11 h 15 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 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 AiresFaro
Official languageSpanishPortuguese
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m10 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresFaro
City population3,121,70764,560
People per km²15,355319
Museums within 10 km752
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5534
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months3 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. 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. 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.