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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
Shitennō-ji temple, Osaka
OsakaShitennō-ji temple

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Osaka by Sarmat Batagov, Pexels License.

Buenos Aires or Osaka?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Osaka for

  • wellness
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Osaka’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, Osaka 34: Osaka leads by 27 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Osaka 91: Osaka leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Osaka 63: Buenos Aires leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Osaka 80: Buenos Aires leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Osaka 58: Osaka leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Osaka 97: Osaka leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Osaka 88: Osaka leads by 36 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Osaka 90: Osaka leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 20 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Osaka 60: Osaka leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Osaka 66: Buenos Aires leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Osaka.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
57match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Osaka
Best match
73match

Wins on wellness and day trips 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

Osaka in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
175 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresOsaka

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). Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresOsaka
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+9
Emergency number117 or 911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation25 m20 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresOsaka
City population3,121,7072,751,862
People per km²15,35512,340
Museums within 10 km7644
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.