VacationSelector

Buenos Aires or Tokyo?

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

Your match

Buenos Aires
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

Tokyo
✓ Best match
66
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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 AiresTokyo
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 12 points.12
Buenos AiresTokyo
Score3321
Swim season months44
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance2 km5 km
Water distance2 km5 km
Places to eat. Tokyo leads by 23 points.23
Buenos AiresTokyo
Score6790
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1976,936
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2625
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires and Tokyo are level on 66.
Buenos AiresTokyo
Score6666
Museums within 10 km148302
Museums within 2 km of centre7152
Share of museums within 2 km %4817
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Tokyo leads by 27 points.27
Buenos AiresTokyo
Score6895
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2956,895
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre7773,033
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6044
Nightclubs within 4 km16058
Nature & day trips. Tokyo leads by 15 points.15
Buenos AiresTokyo
Score4358
Protected land share 50 km %9
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %6785
Park area within 2 km69 hectares85 hectares
Good for families. Tokyo leads by 2 points.2
Buenos AiresTokyo
Score6971
Tourist attractions within 2 km4940
Park area within 2 km69 hectares85 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km69
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires and Tokyo are level on 60.
Buenos AiresTokyo
Score6060
Notable places within 2 km125121
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 12 points.12
Buenos AiresTokyo
Score8270
Price level global45.862.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.11
Buenos AiresTokyo
Score7564
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C10 °C to 31.5 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm57 mm to 237 mm
Dry months00
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
Tokyo
10
11
14
19
24
26
30
32
28
22
17
12
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Tokyo
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Tokyo
60
57
117
134
140
168
157
155
221
237
97
58
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Tokyo
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
12
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Tokyo
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

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). Tokyo: 1991-2020 normals, Tokyo (3.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresTokyo
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
9 h 20 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
13 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 56 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
HND · 18 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 AiresTokyo
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+9
Emergency number117 or 911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation25 m6 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresTokyo
City population3,121,70714,264,798
People per km²15,3556,501
Museums within 10 km75191
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre55125
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 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 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.