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Argentina

40 cities in the atlas · 42 airports with scheduled flights

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Capital: Buenos Aires
Currency: ARS; Argentine Peso
Local time: Argentina Standard TimeUTC-03:00
Calling code: +54
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and I

Facts

Argentina in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Buenos Aires
Currency: Argentine Peso ARSToday's indicative rate: ARS 1,000 ≈ USD 0.661Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: SpanishSpoken: Spanish, English, Italian, German, French and Guarani
Time zones: Argentina Standard TimeUTC-03:00
Calling code: +54
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C and I220 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 100fire101police117general emergency911general emergencyAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 45,851,378 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 2,766,890 km²
Internet domain: .ar
Land borders: Bolivia Brazil Chile Paraguay Uruguay

When to go

Climate across Argentina

In March to May and August to November, more than half of the 11 cities with figures in Argentina have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
Hot
Cool
Wet
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The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Buenos Aires	28°	27°	25°	21°	17°	14°	13°	15°	17°	20°	24°	26°
Rosario	33°	31°	28°	24°	19°	16°	16°	18°	22°	25°	29°	32°
Córdoba	31°	29°	27°	23°	19°	17°	17°	20°	23°	26°	29°	30°
Ushuaia	11°	11°	9°	6°	4°	2°	1°	2°	4°	7°	8°	10°
Mendoza	33°	31°	28°	23°	18°	15°	15°	18°	22°	26°	30°	32°
Mar del Plata	24°	24°	22°	19°	15°	12°	11°	12°	13°	16°	19°	23°
Salta	23°	22°	21°	20°	17°	17°	17°	19°	21°	24°	24°	24°
San Miguel de Tucumán	33°	32°	30°	27°	23°	21°	21°	25°	29°	33°	34°	34°
Santa Fe	34°	32°	29°	25°	20°	18°	17°	20°	23°	26°	30°	32°
Corrientes	33°	33°	31°	27°	23°	21°	20°	23°	26°	29°	31°	33°
Cities good for going, of 11	3	5	9	8	7	4	3	8	8	7	7	4

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where Argentina is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

Cities

Cities in Argentina

All 40 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

Airports

Airports in Argentina

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Large airports

Medium airports · 29

Photographs

Argentina in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Buenos Aires
Photo: ProtoplasmaKid · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Guides

Our guides in Argentina

Argentina
Buenos Aires

Visas and entry

Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.

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Plan it

Plan a trip to Argentina

Tell us where in Argentina, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.