Buenos Aires: how to get there and around

Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina (Buenos Aires F.D.), 31 m (102 ft) above sea level. The nearest large airport is Aeroparque Jorge Newbery (AEP), 7 km (4 mi) from the centre. It has a dozen or more railway stations on record, including Once train station. It is a port city: Puerto Madero and 2 more. Our booking partner lists 7,742+ places to stay.

Key facts

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Daylight in Buenos Aires runs from about 9 h 53 min a day in late June to 14 h 32 min in late December (computed for -34.61° latitude), which matters more than the forecast when a day is built around one flight or one crossing.

Getting there

Buenos Aires is served by 2 airports with scheduled flights within 100 km. The closest large one is Aeroparque Jorge Newbery (AEP), 7 km (4 mi) from the centre, with a longest runway of 7,710 ft, which limits it to short and medium-haul aircraft. The alternatives are Ezeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE, 27 km).

Flights to Buenos Aires: every airport, routes and times

By rail: stations on record include Once train station, Constitución train station, Federico Lacroze train station, Retiro railway station, Retiro Mitre train station, Retiro Belgrano train station. Trains to Buenos Aires

Buses to Buenos Aires · Driving and car hire · Ferries

Where to stay

Our booking partner lists 7,742+ places to stay in Buenos Aires (statistics below are from the first 1,000). Of the 813 with a star rating, the largest group is 4-star (532), and 36 are five-star. Across 516 properties with at least 50 reviews, the average guest score is 8.6 out of 10. Guests have left 626,709 reviews in total.

Hotels in Buenos Aires: the full picture, and book

Our booking partner lists 74 hostels in Buenos Aires, out of 7,742 places to stay of every kind — 1% of everywhere it lists in the city, a small share: this is a city where nearly everything on offer is a hotel or an apartment. Across 41 hostels with at least 50 reviews, the average guest score is 8.2 out of 10, 0.4 below the 8.6 its hotels average. Guests have left 39,505 reviews across them.

Hostels in Buenos Aires: the full picture, and book

What people come for

The busiest is Libertad Palace, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Cultural Center at 1,563,771 visitors in 2024. Figures are the latest each site has published, so they are not all for the same year.

UNESCO World Heritage in the city: ESMA Museum and Site of Memory – Former Clandestine Center of Detention, Torture and Extermination; Navy Petty-Officers School of Mechanics.

Tours, tickets and day trips from Buenos Aires

Nearby cities, and how to get between them

• Montevideo, 203 km (Uruguay) — flights · trains · buses · car rental · ferries · tours
• Rosario, 279 km — flights · trains · buses · car rental · tours
• Mar del Plata, 384 km — flights · trains · buses · car rental
• Santa Fe, 395 km — flights · trains · buses · car rental
• Avellaneda, 5 km
• Merlo, 33 km — buses · car rental · tours
• Quilmes, 16 km — tours
• Laferrere, 24 km — tours
• Paraná, 378 km — flights · trains · buses · car rental
• José C. Paz, 37 km — buses · car rental · tours

Twin towns and sister cities: Berlin, São Paulo, Athens, Belgrade, Bilbao, Bogotá, Brasília, Cádiz, Damascus, Genoa, Guadix, Tel Aviv, Cairo, Kyiv.

Common questions

Where these facts come from

• GeoNames (CC BY 4.0): population, elevation, time zone, postal codes
• Wikidata (CC0): area, sister cities, visitor numbers, heritage listings, stations and ports
• OurAirports (public domain): airports, runways
• Natural Earth (public domain): map outlines

Data compiled 14 September 2026. Hotel and hostel figures are from our booking partner’s catalogue on that date. Journey times on this page are estimates from distance, not timetables; check the operator before you rely on one.