VacationSelector

Buenos Aires or Venice?

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 nature & day trips with your weighting.

Venice
57
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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 AiresVenice
Beaches & swimming. Venice leads by 36 points.36
Buenos AiresVenice
Score3369
Swim season months44
Beaches 10 km020
Coast distance2 km4 km
Water distance2 km4 km
Places to eat. Buenos Aires leads by 22 points.22
Buenos AiresVenice
Score6745
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,197750
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2610
Museums & heritage. Venice leads by 6 points.6
Buenos AiresVenice
Score6672
Museums within 10 km14857
Museums within 2 km of centre7145
Share of museums within 2 km %4879
Unesco sites within 50 km15
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 33 points.33
Buenos AiresVenice
Score6835
Drinking venues within 4 km1,295342
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777306
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6089
Nightclubs within 4 km1603
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 26 points.26
Buenos AiresVenice
Score4317
Protected land share 50 km %94
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %6770
Park area within 2 km69 hectares15 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 12 points.12
Buenos AiresVenice
Score6957
Tourist attractions within 2 km4972
Park area within 2 km69 hectares15 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km63
Sights concentration. Venice leads by 23 points.23
Buenos AiresVenice
Score6083
Notable places within 2 km125464
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 14 points.14
Buenos AiresVenice
Score8268
Price level global45.864.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 9 points.9
Buenos AiresVenice
Score7566
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C8 °C to 30.4 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm36 mm to 106 mm
Dry months02
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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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Buenos Aires
29
27
26
22
19
16
15
17
18
22
24
28
Venice
8
10
15
19
24
28
30
30
25
19
13
8
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Venice
10
9
10
14
18
23
25
26
23
19
16
13
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Venice
38
36
54
78
91
75
65
74
106
89
95
60
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Venice
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Venice
3
4
5
6
7
8
10
9
6
4
3
3

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). Venice: 1991-2020 normals, Treviso / S. Angelo (26.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresVenice
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
2 h 0 m
€46-119
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
1 h 40 m
€68-109
VCE · 7 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
2 h 20 m
€102-159
VCE · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
1 h 10 m
€81-119
VCE · 7 km
AmsterdamAMS
14 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 45 m
€190-215
1 stop
VCE · 7 km
BarcelonaBCN
13 h 0 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 45 m
€41-56
VCE · 7 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
8 h 30 m
€637-650
VCE · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
5 h 55 m
€366-421
2 stops
VCE · 7 km
CancunCUN
8 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VRN · 113 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
11 h 10 m
no fares
VCE · 7 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 AiresVenice
Official languageSpanishItalian
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation25 m2 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsVenice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)7 km from centre98 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresVenice
City population3,121,707250,369
People per km²15,355602
Museums within 10 km7552
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
Distinct cuisines in the centre5546
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months4 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.