Where to live in Argentina
We track 4 cities in Argentina: Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Rosario and Ushuaia. Average temperatures run from 5°C to 19°C. We estimate a couple needs €2,053 to €2,354 a month to live centrally. Argentina sits in our low to medium tax tier. For citizens from outside Mercosur and its associate states, long-term residency is comparatively open.
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- Tax tier
- Low to medium
- Moderate personal income tax
- Languages
- Spanish
- Some English
- Safety
- 55/100
- country-level
- Healthcare
- 68/100
- country-level
- Internet
- ~70 Mbps
- median fixed broadband
The 4 cities we track
| City | Size | Setting | Avg temp | Rain a year | Est. cost a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buenos Aires | large | coastal | 18°C | 1,187 mm | €2,354 |
| Córdoba | large | inland | 18°C | 747 mm | €2,330 |
| Rosario | mid-sized | inland | 19°C | 1,014 mm | €2,269 |
| Ushuaia | smaller | coastal | 5°C | 478 mm | €2,053 |
Source: City size from GeoNames, temperature from the Open-Meteo archive (2019 to 2023 averages), rainfall from TerraClimate (1991 to 2020 normals), coast distance from Natural Earth. Cost is our model estimate for a couple living centrally.
Taxes
Argentina sits in our low to medium tax tier: moderate personal income tax. The tier applies to every city here, and couples who cap tax below it will not see these cities in their results.
Source: OurNextCity tax tiers, assigned by hand from each country's top marginal personal income tax rate and overall tax reputation, with no fixed rate cut-offs. Coarse by design; not tax advice.
Residency and visas
Comparatively open, for people from outside Mercosur and its associate states. Argentina offers accessible long-term residency mainly through the rentista passive-income visa and the pensionado (pension) visa, plus a low-bar inversionista business-investment visa, all renewable toward permanent residency and citizenship within a few years.
Citizens of Mercosur and its associate states have freedom-of-movement or simplified residency rights here.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for Argentina:
- Income: about $1,301 a month (Rentista (passive-income) visa, income equal to 5x the monthly minimum wage = ARS 1,839,000/mo (SMVM ARS 367,800 x5, June 2026), converted at ARS 1,413.71/USD; as of June 2026)
- Investment: about $1,061 (Inversionista (investor) visa, legal minimum ARS 1,500,000 business investment under Decree 366/2025, converted at ARS 1,413.71/USD; as of June 2026)
For short visits, 90 of 198 passports can enter visa-free and 108 need a visa in advance.
Source: OurNextCity residency dataset, hand-reviewed approximations researched against published immigration rules, figures as of June 2026. Not legal advice: check the official source before you apply. Short-stay entry from the passport-index dataset (ilyankou, MIT).