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Buenos Aires or Osaka?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Buenos Aires
63
match

Wins on nature & day trips and sights concentration with your weighting.

Osaka
65
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Buenos AiresOsaka
Beaches & swimming. Osaka leads by 22 points.22
Buenos AiresOsaka
Score3355
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km025
Coast distance2 km7 km
Water distance2 km7 km
Places to eat. Osaka leads by 23 points.23
Buenos AiresOsaka
Score6790
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1979,134
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2625
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 2 points.2
Buenos AiresOsaka
Score6664
Museums within 10 km14878
Museums within 2 km of centre7122
Share of museums within 2 km %4828
Unesco sites within 50 km16
Nightlife. Osaka leads by 29 points.29
Buenos AiresOsaka
Score6897
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2958,473
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre7774,492
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6053
Nightclubs within 4 km16097
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 15 points.15
Buenos AiresOsaka
Score4328
Protected land share 50 km %91
Landscape blanket share 50 km %11
Land share of disc %6784
Park area within 2 km69 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Osaka leads by 3 points.3
Buenos AiresOsaka
Score6972
Tourist attractions within 2 km4947
Park area within 2 km69 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km67
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 12 points.12
Buenos AiresOsaka
Score6048
Notable places within 2 km12563
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 12 points.12
Buenos AiresOsaka
Score8270
Price level global45.862.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 12 points.12
Buenos AiresOsaka
Score7563
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C9.7 °C to 33.6 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm47 mm to 185 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Osaka
10
11
14
20
25
28
32
34
30
24
18
12
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Osaka
14
13
13
15
18
21
25
27
26
23
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Osaka
47
61
103
103
136
185
175
113
146
140
73
56
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Osaka
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Osaka
5
5
6
6
7
5
6
7
5
5
5
5

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year 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).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresOsaka
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 10 m
€237-303
KIX · 38 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
13 h 45 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
12 h 0 m
€859-891
3 stops
KIX · 38 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
12 h 5 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
11 h 30 m
€1,507-1966
2 stops
ITM · 11 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
ITM · 11 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
9 h 35 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
11 h 15 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
13 h 10 m
no fares
KIX · 38 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

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 centre53 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 km7543
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16
Distinct cuisines in the centre5597
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.