VacationSelector

Buenos Aires or Stockholm?

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, 1 point apart

Buenos Aires
63
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Stockholm
62
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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 AiresStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 27 points.27
Buenos AiresStockholm
Score3360
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km073
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 9 points.9
Buenos AiresStockholm
Score6776
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1971,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2636
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 3 points.3
Buenos AiresStockholm
Score6669
Museums within 10 km14874
Museums within 2 km of centre7147
Share of museums within 2 km %4864
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 4 points.4
Buenos AiresStockholm
Score6864
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2951,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6063
Nightclubs within 4 km160106
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 2 points.2
Buenos AiresStockholm
Score4341
Protected land share 50 km %97
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %6777
Park area within 2 km69 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 12 points.12
Buenos AiresStockholm
Score6957
Tourist attractions within 2 km4923
Park area within 2 km69 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km62
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 19 points.19
Buenos AiresStockholm
Score6079
Notable places within 2 km125357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 25 points.25
Buenos AiresStockholm
Score8257
Price level global45.880.3
Daily budget—€169
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 22 points.22
Buenos AiresStockholm
Score7553
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months05
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

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). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
Punta CanaPUJ
7 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
9 h 50 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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 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 centre53 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 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 km75266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre5581
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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. 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. 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.