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Buenos Aires or Izmir?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Izmir
53
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Buenos AiresIzmir
Beaches & swimming. Izmir leads by 22 points.22
Buenos AiresIzmir
Score3355
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km04
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 18 points.18
Buenos AiresIzmir
Score6749
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,197770
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2612
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 23 points.23
Buenos AiresIzmir
Score6643
Museums within 10 km14847
Museums within 2 km of centre7127
Share of museums within 2 km %4857
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 6 points.6
Buenos AiresIzmir
Score6862
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2951,028
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777695
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6068
Nightclubs within 4 km16070
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 14 points.14
Buenos AiresIzmir
Score4329
Protected land share 50 km %94
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %6784
Park area within 2 km69 hectares62 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 34 points.34
Buenos AiresIzmir
Score6935
Tourist attractions within 2 km496
Park area within 2 km69 hectares62 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km62
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.20
Buenos AiresIzmir
Score6040
Notable places within 2 km12539
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Izmir leads by 7 points.7
Buenos AiresIzmir
Score8289
Price level global45.835.2
Daily budget€100
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 3 points.3
Buenos AiresIzmir
Score7572
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C13 °C to 33.9 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm1 mm to 127 mm
Dry months05
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Izmir
13
14
17
21
27
31
34
34
29
24
19
14
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Izmir
16
16
16
17
19
22
23
24
23
21
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Izmir
119
107
77
51
33
13
1
4
22
55
96
127
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Izmir
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Izmir
5
5
7
8
10
11
13
12
10
8
6
4

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresIzmir
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
1 h 5 m
€46-55
ADB · 13 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
3 h 0 m
€204-238
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
3 h 45 m
€119-184
ADB · 13 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
3 h 25 m
€221-272
1 stop
ADB · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
2 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
ADB · 13 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-08 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

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 centre53 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 km7529
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5520
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.