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Buenos Aires or Tampa?

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

Your match

Buenos Aires
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families with your weighting.

Tampa
44
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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 AiresTampa
Beaches & swimming. Tampa leads by 42 points.42
Buenos AiresTampa
Score3375
Swim season months48
Beaches 10 km010
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 13 points.13
Buenos AiresTampa
Score6754
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,197359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2631
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 39 points.39
Buenos AiresTampa
Score6627
Museums within 10 km14813
Museums within 2 km of centre7110
Share of museums within 2 km %4877
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 29 points.29
Buenos AiresTampa
Score6839
Drinking venues within 4 km1,295324
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777227
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6070
Nightclubs within 4 km16026
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 13 points.13
Buenos AiresTampa
Score4330
Protected land share 50 km %96
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %6772
Park area within 2 km69 hectares39 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 39 points.39
Buenos AiresTampa
Score6930
Tourist attractions within 2 km493
Park area within 2 km69 hectares39 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km65
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 39 points.39
Buenos AiresTampa
Score6021
Notable places within 2 km12513
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 39 points.39
Buenos AiresTampa
Score8243
Price level global45.8100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires and Tampa are level on 75.
Buenos AiresTampa
Score7575
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C21.5 °C to 32.6 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm36 mm to 228 mm
Dry months01
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
Tampa
22
23
25
28
31
32
32
33
32
29
26
23
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Tampa
18
18
20
23
26
28
30
30
29
27
23
20
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Tampa
66
66
64
64
67
187
197
228
156
60
36
65
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Tampa
11
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
12
11
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Tampa
7
7
9
10
11
10
9
10
8
8
7
7

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). Tampa: 1991-2020 normals, Tampa International Airport (7.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresTampa
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 35 m
€178-237
1 stop
TPA · 8 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
2 h 40 m
€283-314
EZE · 28 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
SantiagoSCL
2 h 0 m
€156-221
EZE · 28 km
8 h 50 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
9 h 5 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 5 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
Punta CanaPUJ
7 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
11 h 15 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 45 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
8 h 55 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
LimaLIM
4 h 25 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
6 h 0 m
no fares
MCO · 125 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
10 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
TPA · 8 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
15 h 20 m
no fares
MCO · 125 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 2026-08 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 AiresTampa
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 m30 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsTampa International Airport (TPA)8 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresTampa
City population3,121,707384,959
People per km²15,355848
Museums within 10 km756
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5547
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months8 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 2026-09-01. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.