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Buenos Aires or Kathmandu?

Two destinations compared in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires

Photo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Swayambhunath with its prayer flags, Kathmandu
Kathmandu

Photo: Nabin K. Sapkota, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped

Your match

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
57
match

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

Kathmandu
48
match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Our verdict on each category, scored 0 to 100 against fixed benchmark cities.

Buenos AiresKathmandu
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 3 points.3
Food & drink. Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.20
Culture & sights. Kathmandu leads by 11 points.11
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 59 points.59
Nature & outdoors. Kathmandu leads by 32 points.32
Day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 4 points.4
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 32 points.32
Getting around. Buenos Aires leads by 37 points.37
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires leads by 5 points.5
Affordability. Kathmandu leads by 42 points.42
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires leads by 47 points.47
Wellness & relaxation. Kathmandu leads by 17 points.17
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Kathmandu.

When should you go?

Pick the month you can travel and see both cities side by side. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Climate figures for July
JulyBuenos AiresKathmandu
Daytime high15 °C29 °C
Night-time low8 °C20 °C
Rainfall in the month50 mm384 mm
Sunshine5 hours a day4 hours a day
Sea temperature13 °CNo sea
Daylight10 hours a day14 hours a day

The whole year

Each row is shaded against that destination’s own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that figure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Kathmandu
19
22
26
29
29
29
29
29
28
27
23
20
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Kathmandu
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Kathmandu
16
23
37
57
113
260
384
317
211
48
7
10
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Kathmandu
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Kathmandu
6
6
7
7
7
5
4
4
5
7
7
7

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). Kathmandu: 1991-2020 normals, Kathmandu Airport (4.7 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresKathmandu
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
4 h 10 m
€400-446
KTM · 4 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
4 h 50 m
no fares
KTM · 4 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
6 h 55 m
€583-665
1 stop
KTM · 4 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 AiresKathmandu
Official languageSpanishNepali
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Nepalese Rupee (NPR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCM230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+5:45
Emergency number117 or 911Police 100, ambulance 102, fire 101
Elevation25 m1,300 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre50 non-stop destinationsTribhuvan International Airport (KTM)4 km from centre38 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresKathmandu
City population3,121,707845,767
People per km²15,35517,121
Museums within 10 km759
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

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Sources

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. 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. 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 and flight figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-27. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.