VacationSelector

Buenos Aires or Yokohama?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Buenos Aires
63
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Yokohama
61
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips 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 AiresYokohama
Beaches & swimming. Yokohama leads by 16 points.16
Buenos AiresYokohama
Score3349
Swim season months45
Beaches 10 km02
Coast distance2 km1 km
Water distance2 km1 km
Places to eat. Yokohama leads by 11 points.11
Buenos AiresYokohama
Score6778
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1973,004
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2624
Museums & heritage. Buenos Aires leads by 13 points.13
Buenos AiresYokohama
Score6653
Museums within 10 km14857
Museums within 2 km of centre7131
Share of museums within 2 km %4854
Unesco sites within 50 km11
Nightlife. Yokohama leads by 6 points.6
Buenos AiresYokohama
Score6874
Drinking venues within 4 km1,2952,344
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre7771,498
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6064
Nightclubs within 4 km16033
Nature & day trips. Yokohama leads by 15 points.15
Buenos AiresYokohama
Score4358
Protected land share 50 km %9
Landscape blanket share 50 km %10
Land share of disc %6767
Park area within 2 km69 hectares88 hectares
Good for families. Buenos Aires leads by 11 points.11
Buenos AiresYokohama
Score6958
Tourist attractions within 2 km4916
Park area within 2 km69 hectares88 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km68
Sights concentration. Buenos Aires leads by 16 points.16
Buenos AiresYokohama
Score6044
Notable places within 2 km12549
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Buenos Aires leads by 12 points.12
Buenos AiresYokohama
Score8270
Price level global45.862.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Buenos Aires leads by 12 points.12
Buenos AiresYokohama
Score7563
Monthly daytime high14.7 °C to 28.5 °C9.5 °C to 30.1 °C
Monthly rainfall50 mm to 135 mm46 mm to 219 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
Yokohama
10
10
13
18
22
25
28
30
26
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Buenos Aires
25
25
23
21
17
14
13
13
15
18
21
23
Yokohama
15
13
14
16
18
21
24
26
25
22
20
17
Rainfall, mm
Buenos Aires
135
94
123
122
85
54
50
52
58
98
87
107
Yokohama
51
79
132
154
139
195
145
158
219
178
98
46
Daylight, hours per day
Buenos Aires
14
13
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
14
Yokohama
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
Yokohama
6
6
6
6
6
4
5
6
4
4
5
6

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). Yokohama: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Yokohama (1.6 km from centre).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromBuenos AiresYokohama
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
23 h 45 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
2 h 45 m
€296-314
HND · 18 km
MadridMAD
12 h 30 m
€961-982
EZE · 28 km
13 h 20 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
10 h 40 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
13 h 30 m
€813-1004
HND · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
14 h 10 m
€1,193-1373
3 stops
EZE · 28 km
11 h 40 m
€786-939
1 stop
HND · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
13 h 45 m
€1,227-1245
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
12 h 5 m
€835-923
HND · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
13 h 45 m
€1,147-1238
2 stops
EZE · 28 km
11 h 55 m
€820-907
1 stop
HND · 18 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
15 h 5 m
€965-1220
EZE · 28 km
11 h 10 m
€572-637
1 stop
HND · 18 km
RomeFCO, CIA
13 h 45 m
€1,021-1169
1 stop
EZE · 28 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
HND · 18 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
9 h 20 m
no fares
EZE · 28 km
13 h 55 m
no fares
NRT · 77 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 45 m
€1,481-1680
EZE · 28 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
HND · 18 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 AiresYokohama
Official languageSpanishJapanese
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Yen (JPY)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+9
Emergency number117 or 911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation25 m24 m
Main airportEzeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)28 km from centre53 non-stop destinationsTokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)18 km from centre97 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureBuenos AiresYokohama
City population3,121,7073,757,630
People per km²15,3558,585
Museums within 10 km7538
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Distinct cuisines in the centre5566
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months5 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.