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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
The white beach below the high-rise hotels, Orange Beach
Orange BeachThe white beach below the high-rise hotels

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Orange Beach by WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Orange 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 Orange Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Orange 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, Orange Beach 86: Orange Beach leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Orange Beach 40: Buenos Aires leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Orange Beach 7: Buenos Aires leads by 64 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Orange Beach 30: Buenos Aires leads by 65 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Orange Beach 60: Orange Beach leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Orange Beach 50: Buenos Aires leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Orange Beach 75: Orange Beach leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Orange Beach 15: Buenos Aires leads by 47 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Orange Beach 25: Buenos Aires leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Orange Beach 38: Buenos Aires leads by 17 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Orange Beach 32: Buenos Aires leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Orange Beach 32: Orange Beach leads by 4 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Orange 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.

Orange Beach
41match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Orange Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
29 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresOrange 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). Orange Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Gulf Shores / Bay Village Mobile Home Park (10.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresOrange Beach
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation25 m4 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsPensacola International Airport (PNS)41 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresOrange Beach
City population3,121,7078,095
People per km²15,355196
Museums within 10 km760
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months8 months

Where else could you go?

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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.