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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Montpellier?

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
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Montpellier for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Montpellier’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, Montpellier 64: Montpellier leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Montpellier 64: Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Montpellier 60: Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Montpellier 56: Buenos Aires leads by 39 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Montpellier 72: Montpellier leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Montpellier 85: Montpellier leads by 25 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Montpellier 62: Montpellier leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Montpellier 74: Montpellier leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Montpellier 47: Buenos Aires leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Montpellier 50: Buenos Aires leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Montpellier 63: Buenos Aires leads by 12 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Montpellier 42: Montpellier leads by 14 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Montpellier.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
57match

Wins on nightlife and shopping with your weighting.

Montpellier
Best match
62match

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

Montpellier in July

30 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
17 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresMontpellier

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). Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresMontpellier
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 m7 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresMontpellier
City population3,121,707310,240
People per km²15,3555,452
Museums within 10 km7614
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months2 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.