VacationSelector

Buenos Aires or Melbourne?

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 value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Melbourne
60
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 AiresMelbourne
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 22 points.22
Buenos AiresMelbourne
Score3355
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km019
Coast distance2 km4 km
Water distance2 km4 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 8 points.8
Buenos AiresMelbourne
Score6775
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1971,888
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2629
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 17 points.17
Buenos AiresMelbourne
Score6649
Museums within 10 km14842
Museums within 2 km of centre7124
Share of museums within 2 km %4857
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 6 points.6
Buenos AiresMelbourne
Score6874
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2951,921
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre7771,200
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6062
Nightclubs within 4 km160124
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires and Melbourne are level on 43.
Buenos AiresMelbourne
Score4343
Protected land share 50 km %96
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %6781
Park area within 2 km69 hectares166 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 9 points.9
Buenos AiresMelbourne
Score6960
Tourist attractions within 2 km4926
Park area within 2 km69 hectares166 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km61
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 3 points.3
Buenos AiresMelbourne
Score6057
Notable places within 2 km125103
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 32 points.32
Buenos AiresMelbourne
Score8250
Price level global45.890.2
Daily budget——
Year-round weather. Melbourne leads by 1 points.1
Buenos AiresMelbourne
Score7576
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C13.6 °C to 26.8 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm45 mm to 69 mm
Dry months00
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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9

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). Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresMelbourne
SantiagoSCL
2 h 0 m
€156-221
EZE · 28 km
13 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
10 h 5 m
€542-1650
1 stop
MEL · 19 km
AucklandAKL
12 h 50 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
3 h 45 m
€515
MEL · 19 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
14 h 20 m
€856-961
2 stops
MEL · 19 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 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 AiresMelbourne
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911000
Elevation25 m31 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresMelbourne
City population3,121,7075,350,705
People per km²15,355535
Museums within 10 km7542
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5586
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. 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.