VacationSelector

Buenos Aires or Valletta?

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 good for families and nightlife with your weighting.

Valletta
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and year-round weather 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 AiresValletta
Beaches & swimming. Valletta leads by 44 points.44
Buenos AiresValletta
Score3377
Swim season months46
Beaches 10 km022
Coast distance2 km0 km
Water distance2 km0 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 9 points.9
Buenos AiresValletta
Score6758
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,197416
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2635
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 5 points.5
Buenos AiresValletta
Score6661
Museums within 10 km14846
Museums within 2 km of centre7129
Share of museums within 2 km %4863
Unesco sites within 50 km13
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 21 points.21
Buenos AiresValletta
Score6847
Drinking venues within 4 km1,295522
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777250
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6048
Nightclubs within 4 km16027
Nature & day trips. Valletta leads by 3 points.3
Buenos AiresValletta
Score4346
Protected land share 50 km %9
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %676
Park area within 2 km69 hectares24 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 23 points.23
Buenos AiresValletta
Score6946
Tourist attractions within 2 km4932
Park area within 2 km69 hectares24 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km61
Sights concentration. Valletta leads by 1 points.1
Buenos AiresValletta
Score6061
Notable places within 2 km125133
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 13 points.13
Buenos AiresValletta
Score8269
Price level global45.862.8
Daily budget€129
Year-round weather. Valletta leads by 4 points.4
Buenos AiresValletta
Score7579
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C15.7 °C to 31.9 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm0 mm to 90 mm
Dry months06
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
Valletta
16
16
17
20
24
29
32
32
29
25
21
17
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Valletta
16
15
15
16
19
22
25
27
26
24
21
18
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Valletta
80
72
39
19
10
5
0
10
63
74
90
85
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Valletta
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
Valletta
6
6
7
8
10
11
12
11
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). Valletta: 1991-2020 normals, Luqa (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresValletta
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
3 h 10 m
€91-131
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
1 h 30 m
€37-71
MLA · 6 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
2 h 45 m
€99-132
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
2 h 35 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
2 h 15 m
€177-222
MLA · 6 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
3 h 0 m
€205-271
1 stop
MLA · 6 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
9 h 20 m
no fares
MLA · 6 km
BarcelonaBCN
13 h 0 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 5 m
€56-95
MLA · 6 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 AiresValletta
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Maltese
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m56 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsMalta International Airport (MLA)6 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresValletta
City population3,121,7076,444
People per km²15,3558,055
Museums within 10 km7515
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Distinct cuisines in the centre5555
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months6 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.