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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
St. Petersburg, Florida

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or St. Petersburg, Florida?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose St. Petersburg, Florida for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on St. Petersburg, Florida’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, St. Petersburg, Florida 85: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 78 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: Buenos Aires leads by 23 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, St. Petersburg, Florida 52: Buenos Aires leads by 19 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, St. Petersburg, Florida 44: Buenos Aires leads by 51 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, St. Petersburg, Florida 58: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, St. Petersburg, Florida 55: Buenos Aires leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, St. Petersburg, Florida 70: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, St. Petersburg, Florida 33: Buenos Aires leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, St. Petersburg, Florida 38: Buenos Aires leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, St. Petersburg, Florida 35: Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, St. Petersburg, Florida 42: Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, St. Petersburg, Florida 40: St. Petersburg, Florida leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and St. Petersburg, Florida.

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.

St. Petersburg, Florida
50match

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

St. Petersburg, Florida in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
197 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresSt. Petersburg, Florida

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). St. Petersburg, Florida: 1998-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresSt. Petersburg, Florida
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation25 m134 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)16 km from centre60 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresSt. Petersburg, Florida
City population3,121,707258,308
People per km²15,355725
Museums within 10 km7613
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months8 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.