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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
The Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta
JakartaThe Istiqlal Mosque

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Jakarta by Antonyus Bunjamin, Pexels License.

Buenos Aires or Jakarta?

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
  • nightlife
  • getting around

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

Choose Jakarta for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Jakarta’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, Jakarta 28: Jakarta leads by 21 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Jakarta 78: Jakarta leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Jakarta 48: Buenos Aires leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Jakarta 66: Buenos Aires leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Jakarta 30: Buenos Aires leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Jakarta 45: Buenos Aires leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Jakarta 50: Buenos Aires leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Jakarta 36: Buenos Aires leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Jakarta 64: Jakarta leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Jakarta 80: Jakarta leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Jakarta 42: Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Jakarta 46: Jakarta leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Jakarta.

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 nightlife with your weighting.

Jakarta
51match

Wins on prices 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

Jakarta in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresJakarta

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). Jakarta: 1991-2020 normals, Jakarta / Observatory (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresJakarta
Official languageSpanishIndonesian
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Rupiah (IDR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCF50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+7
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m91 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsSoekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK)20 km from centre89 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresJakarta
City population3,121,70711,135,191
People per km²15,35516,821
Museums within 10 km7644
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months12 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. 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.