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Buenos Aires or Washington DC?

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 value for money and good for families with your weighting.

Washington DC
52
match

Wins on sights concentration 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 AiresWashington DC
Beaches & swimming. Buenos Aires leads by 15 points.15
Buenos AiresWashington DC
Score3318
Swim season months43
Beaches 10 km01
Coast distance2 km34 km
Water distance2 km34 km
Places to eat. Washington DC leads by 10 points.10
Buenos AiresWashington DC
Score6777
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1971,666
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2636
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.11
Buenos AiresWashington DC
Score6655
Museums within 10 km14883
Museums within 2 km of centre7155
Share of museums within 2 km %4866
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Buenos Aires leads by 7 points.7
Buenos AiresWashington DC
Score6861
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2951,029
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre777593
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6058
Nightclubs within 4 km16054
Nature & day trips. Buenos Aires leads by 1 points.1
Buenos AiresWashington DC
Score4342
Protected land share 50 km %910
Landscape blanket share 50 km %11
Land share of disc %6794
Park area within 2 km69 hectares96 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 31 points.31
Buenos AiresWashington DC
Score6938
Tourist attractions within 2 km497
Park area within 2 km69 hectares96 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km61
Sights concentration. Washington DC leads by 16 points.16
Buenos AiresWashington DC
Score6076
Notable places within 2 km125305
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 39 points.39
Buenos AiresWashington DC
Score8243
Price level global45.8100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 13 points.13
Buenos AiresWashington DC
Score7562
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C7 °C to 31.7 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm65 mm to 108 mm
Dry months00
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
Washington DC
7
9
13
20
24
29
32
31
27
21
14
9
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Washington DC
3
3
4
9
14
20
25
26
23
18
12
7
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Washington DC
72
65
89
82
101
107
108
83
100
93
74
86
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Washington DC
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Buenos Aires
10
8
8
6
6
4
5
6
6
7
8
9
Washington DC
No sunshine record

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). Washington DC: 1991-2020 normals, Washington National Airport (5 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresWashington DC
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 5 m
€233-271
DCA · 5 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
2 h 40 m
€283-314
EZE · 28 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
9 h 5 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 25 m
€187-272
1 stop
DCA · 5 km
AtlantaATL, PDK
10 h 10 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 40 m
€267-307
1 stop
DCA · 5 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
7 h 50 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
11 h 15 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
1 h 20 m
€158-333
IAD · 37 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
7 h 35 m
€507-561
1 stop
IAD · 37 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 55 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
IAD · 37 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
14 h 0 m
no fares
IAD · 37 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 2026-08 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 AiresWashington DC
Official languageSpanish
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation25 m72 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsRonald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA)5 km from centre103 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresWashington DC
City population3,121,707689,545
People per km²15,3553,896
Museums within 10 km7599
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre5582
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months3 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. 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. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

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.