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Buenos Aires or Valencia?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Buenos Aires
63
match

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

Valencia
64
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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 AiresValencia
Beaches & swimming. Valencia leads by 34 points.34
Buenos AiresValencia
Score3367
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km012
Coast distance2 km3 km
Water distance2 km3 km
Places to eat. Valencia leads by 11 points.11
Buenos AiresValencia
Score6778
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1971,995
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2633
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.11
Buenos AiresValencia
Score6655
Museums within 10 km14859
Museums within 2 km of centre7126
Share of museums within 2 km %4844
Unesco sites within 50 km12
Nightlife. Valencia leads by 2 points.2
Buenos AiresValencia
Score6870
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2951,513
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777957
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6063
Nightclubs within 4 km160108
Nature & day trips. Valencia leads by 10 points.10
Buenos AiresValencia
Score4353
Protected land share 50 km %910
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %6764
Park area within 2 km69 hectares119 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 27 points.27
Buenos AiresValencia
Score6942
Tourist attractions within 2 km4912
Park area within 2 km69 hectares119 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km60
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 8 points.8
Buenos AiresValencia
Score6052
Notable places within 2 km12578
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.11
Buenos AiresValencia
Score8271
Price level global45.860.8
Daily budget€122
Year-round weather. Valencia leads by 9 points.9
Buenos AiresValencia
Score7584
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C16.8 °C to 30.6 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm7 mm to 70 mm
Dry months08
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
Valencia
17
17
19
21
24
28
30
31
28
25
20
17
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Valencia
14
14
14
16
18
22
25
26
25
22
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Valencia
38
30
40
33
36
26
7
15
70
66
52
48
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Valencia
10
11
12
13
14
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
Valencia
6
6
7
8
9
9
10
10
8
7
6
5

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). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresValencia
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
1 h 0 m
€69-81
VLC · 9 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
2 h 15 m
€80-167
VLC · 9 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
1 h 55 m
€103-131
VLC · 9 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
2 h 0 m
€70-117
VLC · 9 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 25 m
€155-178
VLC · 9 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
2 h 15 m
€128-199
1 stop
VLC · 9 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
3 h 35 m
€167-378
VLC · 9 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 AiresValencia
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 m15 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre107 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresValencia
City population3,121,707840,792
People per km²15,3556,242
Museums within 10 km7546
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Distinct cuisines in the centre5592
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.