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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
The Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh
Phnom PenhThe Silver Pagoda

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Phnom Penh by Francisco Anzola, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Phnom Penh?

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

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • getting around

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

Choose Phnom Penh for

  • prices
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Phnom Penh’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, Phnom Penh 6: Buenos Aires leads by 1 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Phnom Penh 62: Buenos Aires leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Phnom Penh 62: Buenos Aires leads by 9 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Phnom Penh 58: Buenos Aires leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Phnom Penh 28: Buenos Aires leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Phnom Penh 34: Buenos Aires leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Phnom Penh 32: Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Phnom Penh 35: Buenos Aires leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Phnom Penh 46: Buenos Aires leads by 14 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Phnom Penh 86: Phnom Penh leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Phnom Penh 32: Buenos Aires leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Phnom Penh 50: Phnom Penh leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Phnom Penh.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

Wins on live music and the arts and nightlife with your weighting.

Phnom Penh
44match

Wins on prices and wellness 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

Phnom Penh in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
168 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresPhnom Penh

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). Phnom Penh: 1991-2020 normals, Phnom-Penh / Pochentong (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresPhnom Penh
Official languageSpanishKhmer
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Riel (KHR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzACG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+7
Emergency number117 or 911Police 117, ambulance 119, fire 118
Elevation25 m11 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsTecho International Airport (KTI)23 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresPhnom Penh
City population3,121,7072,129,371
People per km²15,3553,138
Museums within 10 km763
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.