VacationSelector

Buenos Aires or Toronto?

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 value for money and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Toronto
54
match

Wins on places to eat and 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 AiresToronto
Beaches & swimming. Toronto leads by 10 points.10
Buenos AiresToronto
Score3343
Swim season months41
Beaches 10 km058
Coast distance2 km533 km
Water distance2 km5 km
Places to eat. Toronto leads by 15 points.15
Buenos AiresToronto
Score6782
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1972,133
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2639
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 23 points.23
Buenos AiresToronto
Score6643
Museums within 10 km14835
Museums within 2 km of centre7125
Share of museums within 2 km %4871
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Toronto leads by 1 points.1
Buenos AiresToronto
Score6869
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2951,500
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777966
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6064
Nightclubs within 4 km160103
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 17 points.17
Buenos AiresToronto
Score4326
Protected land share 50 km %92
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %67100
Park area within 2 km69 hectares68 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 12 points.12
Buenos AiresToronto
Score6957
Tourist attractions within 2 km4923
Park area within 2 km69 hectares68 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km64
Sights concentration. Toronto leads by 1 points.1
Buenos AiresToronto
Score6061
Notable places within 2 km125128
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 28 points.28
Buenos AiresToronto
Score8254
Price level global45.884
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 20 points.20
Buenos AiresToronto
Score7555
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C-0.2 °C to 27.4 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm51 mm to 85 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
Toronto
0
0
5
12
19
24
27
26
22
15
8
2
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Toronto
4
3
3
4
7
15
20
21
19
13
8
5
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Toronto
62
58
51
74
58
85
83
69
62
75
65
66
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Toronto
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Toronto
No sunshine record

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). Toronto: 1991-2020 normals, Toronto City (1.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresToronto
Rio de JaneiroGIG, SDU, RRJ
3 h 0 m
€225-302
EZE · 28 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 20 m
€244-359
YYZ · 20 km
Punta CanaPUJ
7 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
4 h 10 m
€500-667
2 stops
YYZ · 20 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
9 h 5 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
3 h 0 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
2 h 40 m
€283-314
EZE · 28 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
SantiagoSCL
2 h 0 m
€156-221
EZE · 28 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
CancunCUN
8 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
3 h 45 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
13 h 40 m
€717-891
YYZ · 20 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
14 h 5 m
no fares
YYZ · 20 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 AiresToronto
Official languageSpanishFrench, English
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation25 m76 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsToronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)20 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresToronto
City population3,121,7072,794,356
People per km²15,3554,434
Museums within 10 km7532
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre55102
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months1 month

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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.