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Buenos Aires or Fort Lauderdale?

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 sights concentration and good for families with your weighting.

Fort Lauderdale
45
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 AiresFort Lauderdale
Beaches & swimming. Fort Lauderdale leads by 51 points.51
Buenos AiresFort Lauderdale
Score3384
Swim season months412
Beaches 10 km07
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 22 points.22
Buenos AiresFort Lauderdale
Score6745
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,197371
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2618
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 46 points.46
Buenos AiresFort Lauderdale
Score6620
Museums within 10 km14814
Museums within 2 km of centre716
Share of museums within 2 km %4843
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 34 points.34
Buenos AiresFort Lauderdale
Score6834
Drinking venues within 4 km1,295259
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777144
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6056
Nightclubs within 4 km16018
Nature & day trips. Fort Lauderdale leads by 38 points.38
Buenos AiresFort Lauderdale
Score4381
Protected land share 50 km %920
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %6751
Park area within 2 km69 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 50 points.50
Buenos AiresFort Lauderdale
Score6919
Tourist attractions within 2 km492
Park area within 2 km69 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km60
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 60 points.60
Buenos AiresFort Lauderdale
Score600
Notable places within 2 km1252
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 39 points.39
Buenos AiresFort Lauderdale
Score8243
Price level global45.8100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Fort Lauderdale leads by 1 points.1
Buenos AiresFort Lauderdale
Score7576
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C24.2 °C to 32.3 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm55 mm to 219 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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Daytime high, °C
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Fort Lauderdale
24
26
27
29
30
31
32
32
31
30
27
26
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Fort Lauderdale
25
25
25
26
27
28
29
30
29
28
27
26
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Fort Lauderdale
55
59
57
72
159
219
166
198
202
144
91
73
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Fort Lauderdale
11
11
12
13
13
14
14
13
12
12
11
11
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Fort Lauderdale
No sunshine record

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

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresFort Lauderdale
Rio de JaneiroGIG, SDU, RRJ
3 h 0 m
€225-302
EZE · 28 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 40 m
€140-271
1 stop
FLL · 7 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
9 h 0 m
€522-631
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
11 h 15 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
3 h 0 m
€167-168
FLL · 7 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
2 h 40 m
€283-314
EZE · 28 km
8 h 25 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
SantiagoSCL
2 h 0 m
€156-221
EZE · 28 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
MIA · 41 km
LimaLIM
4 h 25 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
5 h 40 m
€312-417
1 stop
MIA · 41 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
10 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 45 m
€93-112
FLL · 7 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
9 h 5 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
45 m
no fares
BIM · 100 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
15 h 30 m
€891-1074
2 stops
MIA · 41 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 2026-08 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 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 centre53 non-stop destinationsFort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL)7 km from centre125 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 km756
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5525
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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. 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.