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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Buenos Aires or Saint-Tropez?

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
  • prices
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Saint-Tropez’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, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Saint-Tropez 48: Buenos Aires leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Saint-Tropez 35: Buenos Aires leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Saint-Tropez 60: Buenos Aires leads by 35 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Saint-Tropez 57: Buenos Aires leads by 3 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Saint-Tropez 42: Buenos Aires leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Saint-Tropez 32: Buenos Aires leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Saint-Tropez 64: Saint-Tropez leads by 4 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Saint-Tropez 8: Buenos Aires leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Saint-Tropez 18: Buenos Aires leads by 57 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Saint-Tropez.

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 prices with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

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

Saint-Tropez in July

32 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
10 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Saint-Tropez 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.

Saint-Tropez's sunshine is measured 62 km from the centre, at Nice.

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). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresSaint-Tropez
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m0 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresSaint-Tropez
City population3,121,7073,582
People per km²15,355320
Museums within 10 km764
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months3 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.