VacationSelector

Buenos Aires or London?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Buenos Aires
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

London
64
match

Wins on sights concentration 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 AiresLondon
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.33
Buenos AiresLondon
Score330
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km047
Coast distance2 km43 km
Water distance2 km—
Places to eat. London leads by 21 points.21
Buenos AiresLondon
Score6788
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1973,317
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2640
Museums & heritage. London leads by 6 points.6
Buenos AiresLondon
Score6672
Museums within 10 km148148
Museums within 2 km of centre7149
Share of museums within 2 km %4833
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. London leads by 27 points.27
Buenos AiresLondon
Score6895
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2955,327
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre7772,443
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6046
Nightclubs within 4 km160312
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 3 points.3
Buenos AiresLondon
Score4340
Protected land share 50 km %916
Landscape blanket share 50 km %114
Land share of disc %6797
Park area within 2 km69 hectares84 hectares
Good for families. London leads by 6 points.6
Buenos AiresLondon
Score6975
Tourist attractions within 2 km4985
Park area within 2 km69 hectares84 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km63
Sights concentration. London leads by 29 points.29
Buenos AiresLondon
Score6089
Notable places within 2 km125649
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 28 points.28
Buenos AiresLondon
Score8254
Price level global45.884.9
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 12 points.12
Buenos AiresLondon
Score7563
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C8.2 °C to 23.8 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm38 mm to 67 mm
Dry months01
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
London
8
9
12
15
18
22
24
23
20
16
11
9
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
London
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
London
59
45
38
43
46
47
46
53
51
64
67
57
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
London
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
London
2
3
4
6
6
6
7
6
5
4
2
2

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). London: 1991-2020 normals, London Heathrow Airport (22.5 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresLondon
Rio de JaneiroGIG, SDU, RRJ
3 h 0 m
€225-302
EZE · 28 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
2 h 10 m
€124-216
LHR · 23 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
2 h 40 m
€283-314
EZE · 28 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
SantiagoSCL
2 h 0 m
€156-221
EZE · 28 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
7 h 10 m
€518-651
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
9 h 5 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
LHR · 23 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
1 h 5 m
€92-144
LHR · 23 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 5 m
€146-170
LHR · 23 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
11 h 30 m
€665-831
1 stop
LHR · 23 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
LHR · 23 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 2026-08 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 AiresLondon
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112 or 999
Elevation25 m4 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsLondon Heathrow Airport (LHR)23 km from centre220 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresLondon
City population3,121,7078,799,728
People per km²15,3555,598
Museums within 10 km75215
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre55116
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.