VacationSelector

Buenos Aires or New York?

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

Your match

Buenos Aires
63
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

New York
✓ Best match
66
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 AiresNew York
Beaches & swimming. New York leads by 31 points.31
Buenos AiresNew York
Score3364
Swim season months43
Beaches 10 km017
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. New York leads by 28 points.28
Buenos AiresNew York
Score6795
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1976,032
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2638
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 6 points.6
Buenos AiresNew York
Score6660
Museums within 10 km148119
Museums within 2 km of centre7131
Share of museums within 2 km %4826
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. New York leads by 21 points.21
Buenos AiresNew York
Score6889
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2954,159
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre7772,015
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6048
Nightclubs within 4 km160192
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 4 points.4
Buenos AiresNew York
Score4339
Protected land share 50 km %94
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %6769
Park area within 2 km69 hectares134 hectares
Good for families. New York leads by 3 points.3
Buenos AiresNew York
Score6972
Tourist attractions within 2 km4937
Park area within 2 km69 hectares134 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km67
Sights concentration. New York leads by 14 points.14
Buenos AiresNew York
Score6074
Notable places within 2 km125268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 39 points.39
Buenos AiresNew York
Score8243
Price level global45.8100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 17 points.17
Buenos AiresNew York
Score7558
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C4.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm74 mm to 112 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
New York
5
6
10
16
22
27
30
29
25
19
13
7
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
New York
6
4
5
8
13
18
22
23
21
17
13
9
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
New York
83
74
102
97
91
103
107
112
98
97
80
104
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
New York
10
11
12
13
14
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
New York
No sunshine record

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). New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresNew York
Rio de JaneiroGIG, SDU, RRJ
3 h 0 m
€225-302
EZE · 28 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
7 h 25 m
€474-553
1 stop
JFK · 21 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
9 h 5 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 45 m
€239-267
LGA · 13 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
2 h 40 m
€283-314
EZE · 28 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
SantiagoSCL
2 h 0 m
€156-221
EZE · 28 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
JFK · 21 km
LimaLIM
4 h 25 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
7 h 35 m
no fares
EWR · 14 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
10 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 5 m
€165-236
EWR · 14 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
11 h 15 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 20 m
€206-234
LGA · 13 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
8 h 45 m
€362-464
JFK · 21 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
13 h 40 m
no fares
EWR · 14 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 2026-08 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 AiresNew York
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation25 m25 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre188 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresNew York
City population3,121,7078,804,190
People per km²15,3557,256
Museums within 10 km75157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre55132
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months3 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. 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.