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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
The Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier, Los Angeles
Los AngelesThe Ferris wheel on Santa Monica Pier

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Los Angeles by Domenico Convertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Los Angeles?

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

  • getting around
  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Los Angeles for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Los Angeles’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, Los Angeles 60: Los Angeles leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Los Angeles 66: Buenos Aires leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Los Angeles 67: Buenos Aires leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires and Los Angeles are level on 60.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Los Angeles 84: Los Angeles leads by 32 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Los Angeles 25: Buenos Aires leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Los Angeles 80: Los Angeles leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Los Angeles 24: Buenos Aires leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Los Angeles 83: Los Angeles leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Los Angeles 60: Los Angeles leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Los Angeles.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
57match

Wins on getting around and prices with your weighting.

Los Angeles
Best match
64match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

Los Angeles in July

24 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresLos Angeles

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). Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresLos Angeles
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 m106 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre177 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresLos Angeles
City population3,121,7073,898,747
People per km²15,3552,994
Museums within 10 km7639
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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.