Cities similar to Buenos Aires

Ranked by how close each city sits to Buenos Aires across ten measured metrics: sex ratio, cost, rent, salary, safety, air, green space, places to eat and universities. Closer is more alike, not better.

Montevideo is the closest match, 11.1 percentile points from Buenos Aires across 10 shared metrics. The two sit within eight percentile points of each other on city-centre rent, clean air and cost of living. The band widens slowly from there: the last city listed sits 18.5 away, so these 10 are a cluster rather than a ranking with a clear winner. 1 of the 10 is also in Argentina; the other 9 are abroad. Distance says how alike two cities measure, never which one is better to live in: a city can be close to Buenos Aires because both score badly on the same things.

921 cities ranked by male-to-female ratio, 848 of them measured below national level, 104 country deep-dives.

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MontevideoUruguay11.110city-centre rent, clean air, cost of living
YekaterinburgRussia15.810local salary, clean air, green space
Santo DomingoDominican Republic16.110city-centre rent, safety, salary against local costs
Panama CityPanama17.010salary against local costs, clean air, local salary
QuitoEcuador17.010safety, places to eat, green space
LimaPeru17.210city-centre rent, universities, safety
SalvadorBrazil17.510salary against local costs, universities, safety
NovosibirskRussia17.910local salary, clean air
BogotaColombia18.410universities, places to eat, local salary
CórdobaArgentina18.510salary against local costs, safety, local salary

Distance is the root-mean-square gap in percentile points across the metrics both cities carry, so 0 would be an exact match and 100 the opposite end of every scale. A pair scored on fewer than 8 shared metrics is not listed.

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