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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
Ferries off the Kordon promenade, Izmir
IzmirFerries off the Kordon promenade

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Izmir by Toygar Par, Pexels License.

Buenos Aires or Izmir?

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 Izmir for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Izmir’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, Izmir 62: Izmir leads by 55 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Izmir 72: Buenos Aires leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Izmir 55: Buenos Aires leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Izmir 60: Buenos Aires leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Izmir 66: Izmir leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Izmir 86: Izmir leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Izmir 55: Izmir leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Izmir 63: Izmir leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Izmir 55: Buenos Aires leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Izmir 66: Izmir leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Izmir 48: Buenos Aires leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Izmir 57: Izmir leads by 29 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Izmir.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
57match

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

Izmir
Best match
62match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

Izmir in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresIzmir

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). Izmir: 1991-2020 normals, Izmir (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresIzmir
Official languageSpanishTurkish
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+3
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m2 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsAdnan Menderes International Airport (ADB)13 km from centre120 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresIzmir
City population3,121,7074,493,242
People per km²15,3554,760
Museums within 10 km7629
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.