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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
Turquoise water off Giftun Island, Hurghada
HurghadaTurquoise water off Giftun Island

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Hurghada by Andrey Korchagin, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Hurghada?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose Hurghada for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Hurghada’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, Hurghada 84: Hurghada leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Hurghada 34: Buenos Aires leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Hurghada 14: Buenos Aires leads by 57 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Hurghada 40: Buenos Aires leads by 55 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Hurghada 72: Hurghada leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Hurghada 30: Buenos Aires leads by 30 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Hurghada 62: Hurghada leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Hurghada 22: Buenos Aires leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Hurghada 24: Buenos Aires leads by 36 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Hurghada 80: Hurghada leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Hurghada 10: Buenos Aires leads by 65 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Hurghada 44: Hurghada leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Hurghada.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

Hurghada
43match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

Hurghada in July

37 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresHurghada

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). Hurghada: 1991-2020 normals, Hurguada (15.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresHurghada
Official languageSpanishArabic
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation25 m11 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsHurghada International Airport (HRG)9 km from centre111 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresHurghada
City population3,121,707214,247
People per km²15,355-
Museums within 10 km761
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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. 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.