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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
Korenlei reflected in the Leie, Ghent
GhentKorenlei reflected in the Leie

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Ghent by ykeiko, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Ghent?

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 Ghent for

  • day trips
  • beaches
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Ghent’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, Ghent 25: Ghent leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Ghent 62: Buenos Aires leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Ghent 72: Ghent leads by 1 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Ghent 55: Buenos Aires leads by 40 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Ghent 35: Buenos Aires leads by 3 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Ghent 88: Ghent leads by 28 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Ghent 50: Buenos Aires leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Ghent 78: Ghent leads by 16 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Ghent 50: Buenos Aires leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Ghent 38: Buenos Aires leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Ghent 60: Buenos Aires leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Ghent 33: Ghent leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Ghent.

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 prices with your weighting.

Ghent
54match

Wins on day trips and beaches 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

Ghent in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Ghent 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.

Ghent's sunshine is measured 45 km from the centre, at Vlissingen.

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). Ghent: 2009-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Melle / Kalverhaag (10.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresGhent
Official languageSpanishFrench, German, Dutch
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m12 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsBrussels Airport (BRU)56 km from centre191 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresGhent
City population3,121,707272,657
People per km²15,3551,728
Museums within 10 km7630
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.