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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
The white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town, Krabi
KrabiThe white temple of Wat Kaew Korawaram in Krabi Town

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Krabi by Maksym Kozlenko, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Krabi?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Krabi for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Krabi’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, Krabi 87: Krabi leads by 80 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Krabi 50: Buenos Aires leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Krabi 20: Buenos Aires leads by 51 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Krabi 33: Buenos Aires leads by 62 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Krabi 85: Krabi leads by 47 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Krabi 40: Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Krabi 55: Krabi leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Krabi 30: Buenos Aires leads by 32 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Krabi 20: Buenos Aires leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Krabi 78: Krabi leads by 23 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Krabi 12: Buenos Aires leads by 63 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Krabi 72: Krabi leads by 44 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Krabi.

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.

Krabi
49match

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

Krabi in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
212 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Krabi's temperatures are measured 67 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

Krabi has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

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). Krabi: 1991-2020 normals, Phuket Airport (66.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresKrabi
Official languageSpanishThai
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Baht (THB)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+7
Emergency number117 or 911Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation25 m16 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsKrabi International Airport (KBV)9 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresKrabi
City population3,121,70730,499
People per km²15,355-
Museums within 10 km760
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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.