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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
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Florence and the Arno, Florence
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Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License.

Buenos Aires or Florence?

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
  • prices
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Florence for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Florence’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, Florence 14: Florence leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Florence 74: Buenos Aires leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Florence 94: Florence leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Florence 42: Buenos Aires leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Florence 58: Florence leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Florence 98: Florence leads by 38 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Florence 45: Buenos Aires leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Florence 78: Florence leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Florence 72: Florence leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Florence 35: Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Florence 58: Buenos Aires leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Florence 42: Florence leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Florence.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Buenos Aires
57match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

Florence
59match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights 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

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
No seasea
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

Florence 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.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

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). Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresFlorence
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m50 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresFlorence
City population3,121,707360,930
People per km²15,3553,528
Museums within 10 km76141
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.