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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
The skyline and yachts on the canals, Fort Lauderdale
Fort LauderdaleThe skyline and yachts on the canals

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Fort Lauderdale by KeanoManu, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Fort Lauderdale?

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

  • culture and sights
  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Fort Lauderdale for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Fort Lauderdale’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, Fort Lauderdale 88: Fort Lauderdale leads by 81 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Fort Lauderdale 47: Buenos Aires leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Fort Lauderdale 28: Buenos Aires leads by 43 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Fort Lauderdale 52: Buenos Aires leads by 43 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Fort Lauderdale 62: Fort Lauderdale leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Fort Lauderdale 58: Buenos Aires leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Fort Lauderdale 66: Fort Lauderdale leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Fort Lauderdale 32: Buenos Aires leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Fort Lauderdale 52: Buenos Aires leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Fort Lauderdale 32: Buenos Aires leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Fort Lauderdale 42: Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Fort Lauderdale 40: Fort Lauderdale leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Fort Lauderdale.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights and nightlife with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
50match

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

Fort Lauderdale in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
166 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresFort Lauderdale

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). Fort Lauderdale: 1991-2020 normals, Fort Lauderdale (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresFort Lauderdale
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation25 m11 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre136 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresFort Lauderdale
City population3,121,707182,760
People per km²15,3551,829
Museums within 10 km766
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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. 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.

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.