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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
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The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
Las VegasThe Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Las Vegas?

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

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose Las Vegas for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Las Vegas’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, Las Vegas 10: Las Vegas leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Las Vegas 68: Buenos Aires leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Las Vegas 25: Buenos Aires leads by 46 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Las Vegas 88: Buenos Aires leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Las Vegas 68: Las Vegas leads by 30 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Las Vegas 25: Buenos Aires leads by 35 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Las Vegas 25: Buenos Aires leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Las Vegas 38: Buenos Aires leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Las Vegas 64: Las Vegas leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Las Vegas 35: Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Las Vegas 78: Las Vegas leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Las Vegas 40: Las Vegas leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Las Vegas.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

Las Vegas
47match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness 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

Las Vegas in July

40 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresLas Vegas

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

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 centre48 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 km7621
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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. 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.