Argentina
Buenos Aires
15.5 million people in the metro
The gist
A romantic, European-flavored city with a warm, expressive dating culture and genuine openness to foreigners. Argentina offers a 2-year general residence path to citizenship. The catch: chronic currency instability makes financial planning hard.
The score, in four parts
The pool
How many people you could realistically meet, and how balanced the odds are.
Singles 25 to 34
1.3 million
Never-married people in their late twenties and thirties, estimated
Never married
58% / 52%
Men / women age 25 to 34 who have never married
Balance
More single men than women
108 single men per 100 single women, age 25 to 34
First marriage
30 / 28
Median age for men / women
The scene
Whether people here actually get married, and how open the city is to someone like you.
Want to marry
60%
Single adults who say they want to marry
How fast people marry
15 per 1,000
Weddings per 1,000 unmarried adults each year
Marrying foreigners
3%
Marriages between a local and a foreigner
How people meet
Apps 8/10
Matchmaking and singles events 3/10
The costs
What dating, marrying, and raising a family costs here, against what people earn.
Date night
$40
Dinner for two, drinks, a movie
Family rent
$700/mo
A 2-3 bed apartment, city-wide
A wedding
$5,000
Typical total cost
The reality
Safety, stability, and what daily life is like after the honeymoon phase.
Safety
Stay alert at night
52 out of 100
Divorce
Moderate divorce rate
1.5 per 1,000 people a year
Healthcare
68/100
Quality of care
English
Widely spoken
Everyday usability for a foreigner
The culture
Not scored. Whether these are features or mismatches depends on you.
- Open to marrying foreigners
Marriage payment custom: None.
Marrying in Argentina
What the law says if you marry a Argentina national. Reviewed 2026-08-17. Informational, not legal advice.
- Spousal visa difficulty
- 3 out of 10, where 10 is hardest.
- Marriage process for foreigners
- Civil marriage at the Registro Civil. Foreigners need passport, birth certificate (apostilled and officially translated), and proof of address. Argentina is welcoming to foreigners marrying.
- Path to citizenship by marriage
- No fixed timeline
- Property regime
- Default is community of acquired property (comunidad de ganancias). Since 2015 couples can choose separation of property by agreement.
- Prenup enforceability
- moderate
- Worth knowing
- Argentina is friendly to foreign spouses and has a short 2-year residence path to citizenship generally. Currency instability is the practical concern, not the law. Informational, not legal advice.
* Some numbers come from national statistics and might differ from the city itself. Last updated August 22, 2026.