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The Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires
Buenos AiresThe Teatro Colón
The Hofburg and Heldenplatz, Vienna
ViennaThe Hofburg and Heldenplatz

Photos: Buenos Aires by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Vienna by C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, cropped.

Buenos Aires or Vienna?

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
  • prices
  • food and drink

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

Choose Vienna for

  • wellness
  • getting around
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Vienna’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, Vienna 27: Vienna leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Buenos Aires 75, Vienna 68: Buenos Aires leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. Buenos Aires 71, Vienna 89: Vienna leads by 18 points.
Nightlife. Buenos Aires 95, Vienna 50: Buenos Aires leads by 45 points.
Nature & outdoors. Buenos Aires 38, Vienna 62: Vienna leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Buenos Aires 60, Vienna 74: Vienna leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Buenos Aires 52, Vienna 77: Vienna leads by 25 points.
Getting around. Buenos Aires 62, Vienna 90: Vienna leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. Buenos Aires 60, Vienna 62: Vienna leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Buenos Aires 55, Vienna 44: Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.
Live music & performing arts. Buenos Aires 75, Vienna 96: Vienna leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Buenos Aires 28, Vienna 58: Vienna leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Buenos Aires and Vienna.

Your match

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

Buenos Aires
57match

Wins on nightlife and prices with your weighting.

Vienna
Best match
66match

Wins on wellness and getting around 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

Vienna in July

27 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
78 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
No seasea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Buenos AiresVienna

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). Vienna: 1991-2020 normals, Wien / Hohe Warte (4.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBuenos AiresVienna
Official languageSpanishGerman, Austrian Sign Language
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 m151 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre48 non-stop destinationsVienna International Airport (VIE)18 km from centre202 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresVienna
City population3,121,7072,028,289
People per km²15,3554,890
Museums within 10 km76152
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months-

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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. 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.