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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Newport Beach?

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
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Newport Beach for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Newport Beach’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, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 63 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Newport Beach 50: Buenos Aires leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Newport Beach 20: Buenos Aires leads by 51 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Newport Beach 33: Buenos Aires leads by 62 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Newport Beach 66: Newport Beach leads by 28 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Newport Beach 80: Newport Beach leads by 28 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Newport Beach 20: Buenos Aires leads by 42 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Newport Beach 62: Newport Beach leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Newport Beach 15: Buenos Aires leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Newport Beach 46: Buenos Aires leads by 29 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Newport Beach 44: Newport Beach leads by 16 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Newport Beach.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights with your weighting.

Newport Beach
48match

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

Newport Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresNewport Beach

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). Newport Beach: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1981-2010) normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresNewport Beach
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation25 m3 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresNewport Beach
City population3,121,70785,239
People per km²15,355622
Museums within 10 km764
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.