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Buenos Aires or Las Vegas?

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 museums & heritage and value for money with your weighting.

Las Vegas
45
match

Wins on nature & day trips 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 AiresLas Vegas
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.33
Buenos AiresLas Vegas
Score330
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance2 km372 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 5 points.5
Buenos AiresLas Vegas
Score6762
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,197915
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2624
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 47 points.47
Buenos AiresLas Vegas
Score6619
Museums within 10 km14824
Museums within 2 km of centre714
Share of museums within 2 km %4817
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 10 points.10
Buenos AiresLas Vegas
Score6858
Drinking venues within 4 km1,295793
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777485
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6061
Nightclubs within 4 km16090
Nature & day trips. Las Vegas leads by 20 points.20
Buenos AiresLas Vegas
Score4363
Protected land share 50 km %950
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %67100
Park area within 2 km69 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 35 points.35
Buenos AiresLas Vegas
Score6934
Tourist attractions within 2 km4919
Park area within 2 km69 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km64
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 9 points.9
Buenos AiresLas Vegas
Score6051
Notable places within 2 km12575
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 39 points.39
Buenos AiresLas Vegas
Score8243
Price level global45.8100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 3 points.3
Buenos AiresLas Vegas
Score7572
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C13.9 °C to 40.3 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm1 mm to 21 mm
Dry months012
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
Las Vegas
15
17
22
26
32
38
40
39
35
27
20
14
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Las Vegas
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Las Vegas
14
21
11
5
2
1
9
8
8
8
8
11
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Las Vegas
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
Las Vegas
No sunshine record

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). Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresLas Vegas
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
4 h 55 m
€242-269
LAS · 4 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
11 h 15 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
4 h 20 m
€261-438
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
9 h 20 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
3 h 30 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
10 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
9 h 5 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 40 m
€154-209
LAS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
LAS · 4 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
10 h 15 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
3 h 0 m
€166-315
1 stop
LAS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
LAS · 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 2026-09 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 AiresLas Vegas
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation25 m610 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresLas Vegas
City population3,121,707641,903
People per km²15,3551,843
Museums within 10 km7521
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5549
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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.