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Buenos Aires or Lisbon?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Buenos Aires
63
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

Lisbon
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat 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 AiresLisbon
Beaches & swimming. Lisbon leads by 24 points.24
Buenos AiresLisbon
Score3357
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km024
Coast distance2 km2 km
Water distance2 km2 km
Places to eat. Lisbon leads by 13 points.13
Buenos AiresLisbon
Score6780
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1972,496
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2631
Museums & heritage. Lisbon leads by 4 points.4
Buenos AiresLisbon
Score6670
Museums within 10 km148124
Museums within 2 km of centre7154
Share of museums within 2 km %4844
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 3 points.3
Buenos AiresLisbon
Score6865
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2951,225
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777956
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6078
Nightclubs within 4 km16065
Nature & day trips. Lisbon leads by 13 points.13
Buenos AiresLisbon
Score4356
Protected land share 50 km %911
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %6754
Park area within 2 km69 hectares77 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires and Lisbon are level on 69.
Buenos AiresLisbon
Score6969
Tourist attractions within 2 km4982
Park area within 2 km69 hectares77 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km61
Sights concentration. Lisbon leads by 6 points.6
Buenos AiresLisbon
Score6066
Notable places within 2 km125169
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 8 points.8
Buenos AiresLisbon
Score8274
Price level global45.855.9
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Lisbon leads by 3 points.3
Buenos AiresLisbon
Score7578
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C14.9 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm3 mm to 121 mm
Dry months04
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
Lisbon
15
16
19
20
23
26
28
28
26
23
18
15
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Lisbon
15
15
15
15
16
18
18
19
19
18
17
16
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Lisbon
104
73
72
67
53
13
3
7
36
108
121
102
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Lisbon
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Lisbon
5
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
8
7
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). Lisbon: 1991-2020 normals, Lisboa / Geof (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresLisbon
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
1 h 15 m
€64-74
LIS · 7 km
Rio de JaneiroGIG, SDU, RRJ
3 h 0 m
€225-302
EZE · 28 km
9 h 45 m
€951-1038
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
2 h 30 m
€112-185
LIS · 7 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
2 h 40 m
€283-314
EZE · 28 km
10 h 0 m
€744-1049
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
2 h 25 m
€118-145
LIS · 7 km
FlorianopolisFLN
2 h 5 m
€286-401
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
LIS · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
7 h 0 m
€621-718
1 stop
LIS · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 50 m
€167-189
LIS · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
13 h 0 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 50 m
€74-97
LIS · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
7 h 55 m
€421-500
2 stops
LIS · 7 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 AiresLisbon
Official languageSpanishPortuguese
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m100 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsLisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS)7 km from centre153 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresLisbon
City population3,121,707545,796
People per km²15,3555,453
Museums within 10 km7578
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre55106
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.

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.