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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Stockholm?

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
  • prices
  • food and drink

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Stockholm leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Stockholm 64: Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Stockholm 57: Buenos Aires leads by 38 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 34 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Stockholm 70: Stockholm leads by 10 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Stockholm 30: Buenos Aires leads by 25 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Stockholm 65: Buenos Aires leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
57match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches 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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

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). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresStockholm
Official languageSpanishSwedish
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m22 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresStockholm
City population3,121,707984,748
People per km²15,3555,260
Museums within 10 km76266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.