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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Sedona?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Sedona for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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, Sedona 16: Sedona leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Sedona 33: Buenos Aires leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Sedona 20: Buenos Aires leads by 51 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Sedona 8: Buenos Aires leads by 87 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 55 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Sedona 55: Buenos Aires leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Sedona 42: Buenos Aires leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Sedona 22: Buenos Aires leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Sedona 34: Buenos Aires leads by 26 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Sedona 18: Buenos Aires leads by 37 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Sedona 13: Buenos Aires leads by 62 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 54 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Sedona.

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 live music and the arts with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors 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

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

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). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresSedona
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-7
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation25 m1,319 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresSedona
City population3,121,7079,684
People per km²15,355195
Museums within 10 km760
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.