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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, New York
New YorkBrooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; New York by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or New York?

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

  • prices

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

Choose New York for

  • beaches
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on New York’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, New York 50: New York leads by 43 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, New York 92: New York leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, New York 89: New York leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, New York 97: New York leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, New York 55: New York leads by 17 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, New York 68: New York leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, New York 70: New York leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, New York 82: New York leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, New York 97: New York leads by 37 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, New York 12: Buenos Aires leads by 43 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, New York 99: New York leads by 24 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, New York 42: New York 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 New York.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
57match

Wins on prices with your weighting.

New York
Best match
71match

Wins on beaches and shopping 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

New York in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
107 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
22 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresNew York

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

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 centre48 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre189 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 km76157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months3 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. 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.

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.