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Buenos Aires or Kyoto?

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 nature & day trips and beaches & swimming with your weighting.

Kyoto
58
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife 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 AiresKyoto
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 16 points.16
Buenos AiresKyoto
Score3317
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance2 km47 km
Water distance2 km47 km
Places to eat. Kyoto leads by 17 points.17
Buenos AiresKyoto
Score6784
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1975,023
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2622
Museums & heritage. Kyoto leads by 6 points.6
Buenos AiresKyoto
Score6672
Museums within 10 km148132
Museums within 2 km of centre7151
Share of museums within 2 km %4839
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Kyoto leads by 12 points.12
Buenos AiresKyoto
Score6880
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2953,215
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre7772,363
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6073
Nightclubs within 4 km16026
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 21 points.21
Buenos AiresKyoto
Score4322
Protected land share 50 km %92
Landscape blanket share 50 km %12
Land share of disc %67100
Park area within 2 km69 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 3 points.3
Buenos AiresKyoto
Score6966
Tourist attractions within 2 km4962
Park area within 2 km69 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km64
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 8 points.8
Buenos AiresKyoto
Score6052
Notable places within 2 km12579
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 12 points.12
Buenos AiresKyoto
Score8270
Price level global45.862.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 13 points.13
Buenos AiresKyoto
Score7562
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C8.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm40 mm to 232 mm
Dry months00
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
Kyoto
9
9
13
20
24
27
31
32
28
22
17
11
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Kyoto
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Kyoto
47
67
112
150
147
232
225
149
215
108
68
40
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Kyoto
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Kyoto
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5

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). Kyoto: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Kyoto (3.2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresKyoto
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 81 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 81 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 39 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 39 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 81 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
11 h 15 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 81 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 2026-09 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 AiresKyoto
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+9
Emergency number117 or 911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation25 m51 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)81 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresKyoto
City population3,121,7071,463,723
People per km²15,3551,768
Museums within 10 km7576
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre5589
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.