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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
Elizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth, Perth
PerthElizabeth Quay and the centre of Perth

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Perth by Samuel Wiki, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Perth?

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
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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

Choose Perth for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Perth’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, Perth 86: Perth leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Perth 58: Buenos Aires leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Perth 42: Buenos Aires leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Perth 42: Buenos Aires leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Perth 72: Perth leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Perth 48: Buenos Aires leads by 12 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Perth 74: Perth leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Perth 55: Buenos Aires leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Perth 44: Buenos Aires leads by 16 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Perth 28: Buenos Aires leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Perth 50: Buenos Aires leads by 25 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Perth 38: Perth leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Perth.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights with your weighting.

Perth
53match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors 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

Perth in July

19 °Cdaytime high
8 °Cnight-time low
145 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
20 °Csea
10 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresPerth

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). Perth: 1991-2020 normals, Perth (7.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresPerth
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+8
Emergency number117 or 911000
Elevation25 m2 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsPerth International Airport (PER)10 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresPerth
City population3,121,7072,141,834
People per km²15,355334
Museums within 10 km7615
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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.