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Buenos Aires or Tromso?

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 nightlife and good for families with your weighting.

Tromso
27
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 AiresTromso
Beaches & swimming. Tromso leads by 19 points.19
Buenos AiresTromso
Score3352
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km014
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 43 points.43
Buenos AiresTromso
Score6724
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,19785
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2616
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 43 points.43
Buenos AiresTromso
Score6623
Museums within 10 km14810
Museums within 2 km of centre718
Share of museums within 2 km %4880
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 61 points.61
Buenos AiresTromso
Score687
Drinking venues within 4 km1,29567
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre77761
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6091
Nightclubs within 4 km1605
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 32 points.32
Buenos AiresTromso
Score4311
Protected land share 50 km %99
Landscape blanket share 50 km %19
Land share of disc %6765
Park area within 2 km69 hectares7 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 55 points.55
Buenos AiresTromso
Score6914
Tourist attractions within 2 km499
Park area within 2 km69 hectares7 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km60
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 32 points.32
Buenos AiresTromso
Score6028
Notable places within 2 km12520
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 28 points.28
Buenos AiresTromso
Score8254
Price level global45.885.1
Daily budget€203
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 42 points.42
Buenos AiresTromso
Score7533
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C-1.1 °C to 16.3 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm56 mm to 128 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
Tromso
-1
-1
1
4
9
13
16
15
11
5
2
0
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Tromso
5
5
4
4
6
8
10
11
10
9
7
6
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Tromso
108
95
97
71
56
57
73
90
110
128
94
110
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Tromso
2
7
12
16
22
24
24
18
14
9
4
0
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Tromso
0
1
3
6
8
8
8
6
3
2
0
0

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). Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresTromso
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
3 h 20 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
3 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
4 h 45 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
3 h 5 m
no fares
TOS · 4 km
BarcelonaBCN
13 h 0 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
4 h 35 m
no fares
TOS · 4 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 AiresTromso
Official languageSpanishNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation25 m20 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre45 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresTromso
City population3,121,70779,943
People per km²15,35532
Museums within 10 km758
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5523
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. 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.