Buenos Aires · Month comparison

December vs April

April ranks #1 overall vs December at #12. The finest month in Buenos Aires — mild, beautiful, and the BAFICI film festival puts cinema at the centre of the city.

Buenos Aires December — aerial view of the city's dense urban fabric in summer, with the broad Río de la Plata visible in the distance

December

#12 of 12 months

Worth considering

Summer begins and the city heats up — festive energy before the January exodus, but temperatures are already challenging.

  • ↑Christmas and New Year's celebrations in Buenos Aires are genuinely festive — the city's European character comes through in the decorations, parrilla dinners on Christmas Eve, and the NYE fireworks over the Río de la Plata from Puerto Madero
  • ↑Long summer days with 9.0 sunshine hours; the city's beach culture reaches the artificial beaches of Costanera Norte and the boat day-trips to Tigre delta and the Paraná river islands
Buenos Aires April — the vast Recoleta Cemetery in autumn light, the final resting place of Eva Perón and generations of Argentine history

April

#1 of 12 months

Best match

The finest month in Buenos Aires — mild, beautiful, and the BAFICI film festival puts cinema at the centre of the city.

  • ↑BAFICI (Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, usually April) — one of the world's great independent film festivals, with screenings across the city at venues from Palermo to San Telmo; an authentically Buenos Aires cultural event of serious quality
  • ↑Perfect weather: 23°C average, low humidity, and manageable afternoon showers; the city's boulevards, parks, and outdoor café terraces are at their most inviting
FactorDecemberApril
Weather score
4
9
Value score
4
7
Crowd score
4
7
Events score
6
8
Atmosphere
6
9
Avg high temp29°C23°C
Monthly rain112mm90mm
Daily sunshine9hrs6.8hrs

December trade-offs

  • ↓The heat (29°C average with building humidity) makes daytime sightseeing progressively more taxing through the month; Buenos Aires in the second half of December is firmly summer and acts accordingly
  • ↓Hotels prices are higher than winter or autumn in December — demand from local events and the year-end travel season pushes rates up
  • ↓The restaurant and cultural closures that define January begin in the last week of December, as Buenos Aires begins its annual migration to the coast

April trade-offs

  • ↓90mm of rain across April means occasional days of grey and shower; it is by no means a dry month, and an umbrella is essential
  • ↓Slightly fewer major international visitors than the spring months (September–November), meaning some cultural events are locally-oriented and harder to access without Spanish
  • ↓Days are shortening as autumn progresses; golden hour comes earlier and the long evening light of spring and summer is gone
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Scores compare months within Buenos Aires. Climate data: Open Meteo ERA5 30-year normals (1991–2020). Methodology →