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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
Sint Servaasbrug over the Maas, Maastricht
MaastrichtSint Servaasbrug over the Maas

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Maastricht by Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Maastricht?

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

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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

Choose Maastricht for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Maastricht’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, Maastricht 8: Maastricht leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Maastricht 58: Buenos Aires leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Maastricht 60: Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Maastricht 42: Buenos Aires leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Maastricht 58: Maastricht leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Maastricht 77: Maastricht leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Maastricht 55: Maastricht leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Maastricht 74: Maastricht leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires and Maastricht are level on 60.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Maastricht 38: Buenos Aires leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Maastricht 40: Buenos Aires leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Maastricht 52: Maastricht leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Maastricht.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Maastricht
52match

Wins on wellness 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

Maastricht in July

24 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresMaastricht

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). Maastricht: 1991-2020 normals, Maastricht Airport Zuid Limburg (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresMaastricht
Official languageSpanishDutch
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m49 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsMaastricht Aachen Airport (MST)9 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresMaastricht
City population3,121,707120,227
People per km²15,3552,000
Museums within 10 km7621
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.