VacationSelector

Buenos Aires or Marseille?

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

Your match

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Marseille
57
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 AiresMarseille
Beaches & swimming. Marseille leads by 34 points.34
Buenos AiresMarseille
Score3367
Swim season months42
Beaches 10 km064
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Marseille leads by 8 points.8
Buenos AiresMarseille
Score6775
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1971,320
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2639
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 16 points.16
Buenos AiresMarseille
Score6650
Museums within 10 km14833
Museums within 2 km of centre7123
Share of museums within 2 km %4870
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.20
Buenos AiresMarseille
Score6848
Drinking venues within 4 km1,295544
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777454
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6083
Nightclubs within 4 km16030
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 6 points.6
Buenos AiresMarseille
Score4337
Protected land share 50 km %915
Landscape blanket share 50 km %113
Land share of disc %6756
Park area within 2 km69 hectares25 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 25 points.25
Buenos AiresMarseille
Score6944
Tourist attractions within 2 km4917
Park area within 2 km69 hectares25 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km64
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 2 points.2
Buenos AiresMarseille
Score6058
Notable places within 2 km125111
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.20
Buenos AiresMarseille
Score8262
Price level global45.873.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires and Marseille are level on 75.
Buenos AiresMarseille
Score7575
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C11.8 °C to 30.7 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm11 mm to 82 mm
Dry months06
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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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Marseille
12
13
16
19
24
28
31
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Marseille
13
13
13
14
16
19
21
22
21
19
17
15
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Marseille
47
30
29
51
38
28
11
26
82
72
76
41
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Marseille
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Marseille
5
6
8
8
10
11
12
11
9
6
5
4

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). Marseille: 1991-2020 normals, Marseille / Marignane (20.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresMarseille
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
1 h 25 m
€110-119
MRS · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
1 h 50 m
€65-134
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
2 h 55 m
€219-245
1 stop
MRS · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
1 h 35 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
13 h 0 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
MRS · 21 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
MRS · 21 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 AiresMarseille
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m0 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsMarseille Provence Airport (MRS)21 km from centre125 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresMarseille
City population3,121,707886,040
People per km²15,3553,683
Museums within 10 km7527
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5593
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months2 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. 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.