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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
Gastown, Vancouver
VancouverGastown

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Vancouver by Xicotencatl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Vancouver?

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
  • culture and sights
  • prices

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

Choose Vancouver for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Vancouver’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, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Vancouver 72: Buenos Aires leads by 3 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Vancouver 42: Buenos Aires leads by 29 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Vancouver 42: Buenos Aires leads by 53 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Vancouver 97: Vancouver leads by 59 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Vancouver 45: Buenos Aires leads by 15 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 20 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Vancouver 73: Vancouver leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Vancouver 55: Buenos Aires leads by 5 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Vancouver 27: Buenos Aires leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Vancouver 52: Buenos Aires leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Vancouver 50: Vancouver leads by 22 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Vancouver.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Buenos Aires
57match

Wins on nightlife and culture and sights with your weighting.

Vancouver
56match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and beaches 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

Vancouver in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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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). Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresVancouver
Official languageSpanishFrench, English
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation25 m2 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresVancouver
City population3,121,707662,248
People per km²15,3555,759
Museums within 10 km7626
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 monthsNone

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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. 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.

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.