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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
The floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima, Hiroshima
HiroshimaThe floating torii of Itsukushima at Miyajima

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Hiroshima by Guohua Song, Pexels License.

Buenos Aires or Hiroshima?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Hiroshima for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Hiroshima’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, Hiroshima 30: Hiroshima leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Hiroshima 66: Buenos Aires leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Hiroshima 60: Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Hiroshima 45: Buenos Aires leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Hiroshima 62: Hiroshima leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Hiroshima 80: Hiroshima leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Hiroshima 60: Hiroshima leads by 8 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Hiroshima 74: Hiroshima leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Hiroshima 52: Buenos Aires leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Hiroshima 58: Hiroshima leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Hiroshima 38: Buenos Aires leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Hiroshima 50: Hiroshima leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Hiroshima.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Buenos Aires
57match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Hiroshima
56match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Hiroshima in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
299 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresHiroshima

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). Hiroshima: 1991-2020 normals, Hiroshima (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresHiroshima
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+9
Emergency number117 or 911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation25 m3 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsHiroshima Airport (HIJ)43 km from centre10 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresHiroshima
City population3,121,7071,198,021
People per km²15,3551,324
Museums within 10 km7618
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.