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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
The Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake, Guilin
GuilinThe Sun and Moon pagodas on Shan Lake

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Guilin by xiquinhosilva, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Guilin?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • shopping

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

Choose Guilin for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Guilin’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, Guilin 8: Guilin leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Guilin 45: Buenos Aires leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Guilin 40: Buenos Aires leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Guilin 30: Buenos Aires leads by 65 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Guilin 88: Guilin leads by 50 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Guilin 56: Buenos Aires leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Guilin 45: Buenos Aires leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Guilin 45: Buenos Aires leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Guilin 28: Buenos Aires leads by 32 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Guilin 78: Guilin leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Guilin 30: Buenos Aires leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Guilin 40: Guilin 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 Guilin.

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 live music and the arts with your weighting.

Guilin
44match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices 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

Guilin in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
248 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresGuilin

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). Guilin: 1991-2020 normals, Guilin (7.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresGuilin
Official languageSpanishPutonghua
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzACI220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+8
Emergency number117 or 911Police 110, ambulance 120, fire 119
Elevation25 m153 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsGuilin Liangjiang International Airport (KWL)25 km from centre43 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days6 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresGuilin
City population3,121,7074,931,137
People per km²15,355-
Museums within 10 km761
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

Where else could you go?

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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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.