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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
Cinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom, Orlando
OrlandoCinderella Castle, Magic Kingdom

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Orlando by Michael Gray, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Orlando?

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
  • getting around
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Orlando for

  • families
  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Orlando’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, Orlando 42: Orlando leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Orlando 48: Buenos Aires leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Orlando 22: Buenos Aires leads by 49 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Orlando 40: Buenos Aires leads by 55 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Orlando 46: Orlando leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Orlando 58: Buenos Aires leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Orlando 98: Orlando leads by 46 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Orlando 8: Buenos Aires leads by 54 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Orlando 58: Buenos Aires leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Orlando 36: Buenos Aires leads by 19 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Orlando 40: Buenos Aires leads by 35 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Orlando 32: Orlando 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 Orlando.

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 getting around with your weighting.

Orlando
44match

Wins on families and beaches 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

Orlando in July

33 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
189 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresOrlando

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). Orlando: 1991-2020 normals, Orlando Airport (14.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresOrlando
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 m34 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsOrlando International Airport (MCO)14 km from centre169 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresOrlando
City population3,121,707334,854
People per km²15,3551,086
Museums within 10 km7611
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.