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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
The Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro, Paris
ParisThe Eiffel Tower from the Trocadéro

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Paris by Efrem Efre, Pexels License.

Buenos Aires or Paris?

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

  • prices
  • nightlife

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

Choose Paris for

  • shopping
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Paris’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, Paris 9: Paris leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Paris 96: Paris leads by 21 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Paris 97: Paris leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Paris 80: Buenos Aires leads by 15 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Paris 52: Paris leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Paris 92: Paris leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Paris 79: Paris leads by 27 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Paris 88: Paris leads by 26 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Paris 98: Paris leads by 38 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Paris 25: Buenos Aires leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Paris 88: Paris leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Paris 40: Paris leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Paris.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
57match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Paris
Best match
70match

Wins on shopping 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

Paris in July

26 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
58 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresParis

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). Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresParis
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m27 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresParis
City population3,121,7072,103,778
People per km²15,35519,960
Museums within 10 km76251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.