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Buenos Aires or Oslo?

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

Your match

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Oslo
56
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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 AiresOslo
Beaches & swimming. Oslo leads by 27 points.27
Buenos AiresOslo
Score3360
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km0163
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires and Oslo are level on 67.
Buenos AiresOslo
Score6767
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,197853
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2634
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 18 points.18
Buenos AiresOslo
Score6648
Museums within 10 km14870
Museums within 2 km of centre7137
Share of museums within 2 km %4853
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 15 points.15
Buenos AiresOslo
Score6853
Drinking venues within 4 km1,295695
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777562
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6081
Nightclubs within 4 km16041
Nature & day trips. Oslo leads by 18 points.18
Buenos AiresOslo
Score4361
Protected land share 50 km %922
Landscape blanket share 50 km %11
Land share of disc %6794
Park area within 2 km69 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 21 points.21
Buenos AiresOslo
Score6948
Tourist attractions within 2 km4913
Park area within 2 km69 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km62
Sights concentration. Oslo leads by 9 points.9
Buenos AiresOslo
Score6069
Notable places within 2 km125207
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 28 points.28
Buenos AiresOslo
Score8254
Price level global45.885.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 27 points.27
Buenos AiresOslo
Score7548
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C0.1 °C to 22.7 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm40 mm to 104 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
Oslo
0
1
5
11
17
20
23
21
16
10
4
1
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Oslo
4
3
3
6
11
15
18
18
15
12
9
6
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Oslo
58
46
40
48
60
80
86
104
81
94
84
54
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Oslo
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Oslo
2
3
5
6
8
8
8
7
5
3
2
1

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). Oslo: 1991-2020 normals, Oslo-Blindern (4.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresOslo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
2 h 5 m
€46-96
OSL · 37 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 50 m
€162-207
OSL · 37 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
3 h 30 m
€110-169
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
2 h 15 m
€145-204
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
2 h 0 m
€163-249
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
3 h 30 m
€213-241
1 stop
OSL · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
7 h 40 m
no fares
OSL · 37 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
6 h 45 m
€406
OSL · 37 km
BarcelonaBCN
13 h 0 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
3 h 15 m
€109-152
1 stop
OSL · 37 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 AiresOslo
Official languageSpanishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation25 m23 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsOslo-Gardermoen International Airport (OSL)37 km from centre58 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresOslo
City population3,121,707717,710
People per km²15,355
Museums within 10 km7560
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5575
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.