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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
The old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds, Sapporo
SapporoThe old Hokkaido Government Office and its flower beds

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sapporo by Feri88, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Sapporo?

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
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Sapporo for

  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Sapporo’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, Sapporo 28: Sapporo leads by 21 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Sapporo 40: Buenos Aires leads by 31 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Sapporo 62: Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Sapporo 86: Sapporo leads by 48 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Sapporo 64: Sapporo leads by 4 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Sapporo 72: Sapporo leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Sapporo 58: Buenos Aires leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Sapporo 60: Sapporo leads by 5 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Sapporo 44: Buenos Aires leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Sapporo 80: Sapporo leads by 52 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Sapporo.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
57match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights with your weighting.

Sapporo
Best match
63match

Wins on wellness 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

Sapporo in July

25 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresSapporo

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). Sapporo: 1991-2020 normals, Sapporo (2.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresSapporo
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+9
Emergency number117 or 911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation25 m5 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsNew Chitose Airport (CTS)42 km from centre42 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresSapporo
City population3,121,7071,959,313
People per km²15,3551,747
Museums within 10 km7633
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months1 month

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.