VacationSelector

Buenos Aires or Seoul?

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

Your match

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Buenos Aires
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather with your weighting.

Seoul
63
match

Wins on places to eat and museums & heritage 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 AiresSeoul
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 18 points.18
Buenos AiresSeoul
Score3315
Swim season months42
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance2 km28 km
Water distance2 km28 km
Places to eat. Seoul leads by 18 points.18
Buenos AiresSeoul
Score6785
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1973,559
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2632
Museums & heritage. Seoul leads by 17 points.17
Buenos AiresSeoul
Score6683
Museums within 10 km148203
Museums within 2 km of centre7190
Share of museums within 2 km %4844
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Seoul leads by 12 points.12
Buenos AiresSeoul
Score6880
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2953,291
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre7771,630
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6050
Nightclubs within 4 km16029
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.11
Buenos AiresSeoul
Score4332
Protected land share 50 km %91
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %6795
Park area within 2 km69 hectares126 hectares
Good for families. Seoul leads by 10 points.10
Buenos AiresSeoul
Score6979
Tourist attractions within 2 km4962
Park area within 2 km69 hectares126 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km68
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 1 points.1
Buenos AiresSeoul
Score6059
Notable places within 2 km125118
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 10 points.10
Buenos AiresSeoul
Score8272
Price level global45.859.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 14 points.14
Buenos AiresSeoul
Score7561
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C2 °C to 30 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm18 mm to 422 mm
Dry months04
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
Seoul
2
5
11
18
24
28
29
30
26
20
12
4
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Seoul
6
4
5
8
12
17
21
24
23
20
15
10
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Seoul
18
28
38
70
104
138
422
390
156
49
50
20
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Seoul
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Seoul
5
5
6
7
7
6
4
5
6
7
5
5

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

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresSeoul
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 40 m
€197-199
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
12 h 25 m
no fares
ICN · 49 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
11 h 15 m
€632-735
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
13 h 45 m
€770-823
ICN · 49 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
10 h 45 m
€646-685
ICN · 49 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
11 h 10 m
€687-728
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
11 h 5 m
€603-659
1 stop
ICN · 49 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
10 h 0 m
€493-591
ICN · 49 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
9 h 20 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
14 h 55 m
€1,052-1072
2 stops
ICN · 49 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
ICN · 49 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 2026-09 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 AiresSeoul
Official languageSpanishKorean, Korean Sign Language
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Won (KRW)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCF220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+9
Emergency number117 or 911Police 112, ambulance 119, fire 119
Elevation25 m38 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsIncheon International Airport (ICN)49 km from centre161 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresSeoul
City population3,121,7079,668,465
People per km²15,35515,973
Museums within 10 km7580
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre55156
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months2 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.