VacationSelector

Buenos Aires or Paris?

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

Your match

Buenos Aires
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on sights concentration 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 AiresParis
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.33
Buenos AiresParis
Score330
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance2 km149 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Paris leads by 23 points.23
Buenos AiresParis
Score6790
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1974,732
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2633
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 10 points.10
Buenos AiresParis
Score6676
Museums within 10 km148185
Museums within 2 km of centre7165
Share of museums within 2 km %4835
Unesco sites within 50 km14
Nightlife. Paris leads by 20 points.20
Buenos AiresParis
Score6888
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2953,796
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre7771,694
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6045
Nightclubs within 4 km160201
Nature & day trips. Paris leads by 5 points.5
Buenos AiresParis
Score4348
Protected land share 50 km %928
Landscape blanket share 50 km %126
Land share of disc %67100
Park area within 2 km69 hectares82 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 6 points.6
Buenos AiresParis
Score6975
Tourist attractions within 2 km4989
Park area within 2 km69 hectares82 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km63
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 34 points.34
Buenos AiresParis
Score6094
Notable places within 2 km125865
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.20
Buenos AiresParis
Score8262
Price level global45.873.7
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 9 points.9
Buenos AiresParis
Score7566
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C7.8 °C to 26 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm38 mm to 75 mm
Dry months01
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Paris
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Paris
No sunshine record

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

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresParis
Rio de JaneiroGIG, SDU, RRJ
3 h 0 m
€225-302
EZE · 28 km
11 h 30 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
2 h 40 m
€283-314
EZE · 28 km
11 h 45 m
€806-1124
CDG · 22 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
SantiagoSCL
2 h 0 m
€156-221
EZE · 28 km
14 h 25 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
1 h 55 m
€118-132
ORY · 14 km
LimaLIM
4 h 25 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
11 h 35 m
no fares
CDG · 22 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 2026-08 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 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 centre53 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 km75251
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14
Distinct cuisines in the centre55169
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.