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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
Puente de San Martín over the Tagus, Toledo
ToledoPuente de San Martín over the Tagus

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Toledo by Ввласенко, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Toledo?

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
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

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

Choose Toledo for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Toledo’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, Toledo 5: Buenos Aires leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Toledo 40: Buenos Aires leads by 35 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Toledo 79: Toledo leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Toledo 22: Buenos Aires leads by 73 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Toledo 40: Toledo leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Toledo 78: Toledo leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Toledo 45: Buenos Aires leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Toledo 64: Toledo leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Toledo 32: Buenos Aires leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Toledo 58: Toledo leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Toledo 22: Buenos Aires leads by 53 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Toledo 30: Toledo leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Toledo.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
Best match
57match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Toledo
43match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights 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

Toledo in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
6 mmrain in the month
13 hsunshine a day
No seasea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresToledo

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). Toledo: 1991-2020 normals, Toledo (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresToledo
Official languageSpanishSpanish
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m523 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)80 km from centre239 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresToledo
City population3,121,70787,216
People per km²15,355376
Museums within 10 km7613
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.