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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
Hobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington, Hobart
HobartHobart below kunanyi/Mount Wellington

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Hobart by Gary Houston, CC0.

Buenos Aires or Hobart?

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 Hobart for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Hobart’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, Hobart 30: Hobart leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Hobart 60: Buenos Aires leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Hobart 56: Buenos Aires leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Hobart 30: Buenos Aires leads by 65 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Hobart 85: Hobart leads by 47 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires and Hobart are level on 60.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Hobart 56: Hobart leads by 4 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Hobart 45: Buenos Aires leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Hobart 38: Buenos Aires leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Hobart 35: Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Hobart 45: Buenos Aires leads by 30 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Hobart 40: Hobart 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 Hobart.

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.

Hobart
48match

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

Hobart in July

13 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
13 °Csea
9 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresHobart

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). Hobart: 1991-2020 normals, Hobart (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresHobart
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911000
Elevation25 m54 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsHobart International Airport (HBA)17 km from centre9 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresHobart
City population3,121,707197,451
People per km²15,355116
Museums within 10 km768
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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.