Add concerts, art and amazing outings to your plans for this weekend in Buenos Aires. Here is a list of events and activities for January in Buenos Aires. If you still don’t know what to do in Buenos Aires on the weekend, here’s what’s going on this Thursday, Friday, Saturday of January. Prepare your plans for this weekend in Buenos Aires!
1. Summertime Jazz Festival
Palermo’s jazz club, Bebop Club, is celebrating its first shows this weekend as part of the Summertime Jazz Festival. If you love jazz and feel transported to an atmosphere like New York jazz clubs, don’t miss this weekend’s shows:
👉Friday, January 17, Friday, January 24 and Friday, January 31: Ligia Piro
📍Uriarte 1658
2. Discover the best exhibitions and shows
This weekend in Buenos Aires, you can visit the MACBA on guided tours, take a stroll through the Malba and discover its most recent and free exhibitions at the Centro Cultural Recoleta. His most recent exhibition opens up Cortazar’s world in detail through an exhibition of personal objects.
MACBA 📍Av. San Juan 328
MALBA 📍Figueroa Alcorta Ave. 3415
Centro Cultural Recoleta 📍Junín 1130
3. Diego Eterno
Don’t miss the immersive exhibition Diego Eterno at La Rural, which offers a journey through the different facets of Maradona as a person and as a player. You will be able to relive his moments of glory, see his most iconic jerseys up close and immerse yourself in interactive experiences designed for the whole family and interactive games. There is a lot to do in CABA and this exhibition is undoubtedly one of the best plans for this weekend in Buenos Aires if you love soccer.
📍La Rural, 4201 Santa Fe Av.
📅From November 29, 2024 to January 31, 2025.
4. Free Belushi film series
There can’t be good plans for this weekend in Buenos Aires without cinema. This January, the Recoleta Cultural Center has among its film series one dedicated to the television humor created by the Saturday Night Life program. Every Friday a satirical film full of humor from the 60s, 70s and 80s awaits you. This Friday is the turn of 1941.
The show is free but you have to make a reservation at EntradasBA.
friday january 17th. 6pm
Junin 1950
5. Travel on a locomotive
One of your plans for this weekend in Buenos Aires should be to ride on a train and locomotive like a century ago, on board one of the trains that you will find at the Railway Museum of Retiro.
Buenos Aires Railway Museum
📍405 Libertador Avenue
The Buenos Aires Railway Museum is open every day (including weekends) from 10am to 8pm.
6. Choose your theater play for this weekend.
A weekend without theater? No way because there are so many plays to choose from. Dramas, comedies, dramas with comedy, historical, alternative and not so alternative, and in all neighborhoods. There are plenty of stories and many of the theaters also have cafes where you can meet and have a drink before or after. Isn’t it one of the best plans for this weekend you can imagine?
7. Visit the Aeronautical Museum
Every weekend, you can go a little further away from Buenos Aires and visit, for example, the aeronautical museum of Morón: it has two giant hangars with a very important collection of airplanes and learn about the history of aviation in Argentina. For fans of flying and airplanes, one of the best plans and events for your weekend in Buenos Aires.
📍Eva Peron Av. 2200
8. Concerts in magical places by candlelight
This weekend you can’t miss some of the Candlelight concerts, the candlelight concerts (thousands of candles) where you can listen to the best songs of Coldplay, Adele, Queen and many other great artists, performed by a string quartet in a unique place in Buenos Aires. Buy your tickets because it’s a great gift for January!
9. Visit the Automobile Museum of Buenos Aires
If you don’t have plans for this weekend, discover the Automobile Museum if you have never been there before. With intact examples of the most classic cars in the industry, a section dedicated to Fangio and the Galvez brothers and collection objects, this museum is the perfect place to be transported to another era.
Automobile Museum📍Irigoyen 2265 Cap. Fed. Villa Real.
Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 2pm to 7pm.
10. Find your neighborhood organic fair
This weekend, the Mercado de Pulgas market becomes the epicenter of vegan gastronomy with a festival dedicated to vegan and natural cuisine. Take a walk on Saturday and Sunday for the Festival Sabe La Tierra, which also awaits you with activities and a vegetable garden workshop.
In case you didn’t know, Sabe la Tierra is a network of organic fairs where producers of fruits, vegetables and organic products come together to offer you a wide variety of pesticide-free and environmentally friendly products. You can find these fairs every weekend:
Every Thursday from 10hs to 18hs at Saenz Peña Av. and Florida or at Libertad and Lavalle from 11hs to 19hs. Every Friday from 11 am to 7 pm at Parque Rivadavia. Every Sunday at Plaza Irlanda from 8 am to 2 pm, at Parque Rivadavia from 8 am to 3 pm and at Parque Las Heras from 12 pm to 7 pm.
11. Bs As Night Market in the squares of Buenos Aires
If you don’t know what to do this weekend in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Market at night is back ! Always a different square, always the best products and local producers and a great variety to choose to eat and eat, but now that the summer is already palpable, in night version to dine by moonlight.
📍Aristóbulo del Valle Square. In Cuenca between Baigorria and Marcos Sastre.
📅 January 18 & 19
12. Experience CABA’s Summer Parks and their activities.
Every weekend you can enjoy the three summer parks that Buenos Aires has prepared to enjoy January and February in summer if you stay in the city. Besides offering lots of greenery, there are always workshops and activities for the whole family,water games, gastronomic fairs and sand. It is a perfect place for a picnic, some mates and a quiet afternoon. Check out all the things you can do.
13. Doors to Worlds
If you want to know new worlds just by opening some secret doors and discover a world upside down, outer space or a world of giant stuffed animals, this is the exhibition for you. Doors to Worlds is your plan for this weekend in CABA at La Rural.
📍Santa Fé Av. and Sarmiento Av.
📅 From January 10 to March 13
14. Chorifest
The festival dedicated to chorizo and derived delicacies returns to the Palermo Hippodrome. Don’t miss this weekend’s Chorifest . Mark in your agenda the weekend of January 17 and 18 and make a place for some of the different types of choripan you can have for lunch.
Palermo Racecourse
📍4101 Libertador Avenue
January 17 and 18. From 12hs to 20hs
15. Musical classics at Malba
This January, Malba has an unmissable musical film season, with European operettas, classics of the genre that never go out of style and even an Argentine musical. This weekend, these are the films playing:
Malba. Av. Presidente. Figueroa Alcorta 3415
📅 Open Wednesday to Sunday from 12hs to 20hs. Tuesday closed.
General admission 5000 pesos. Students and retirees 2500 pesos.
16. Matsuri at the Mercat Villa Crespo
This weekend you can enjoy the first Japanese festival of 2025 because the Mercat de Villa Crespo celebrates a new Matsuri: live shows with Nikkei rock and pop bands, traditional Japanese dances, drums. Also, enjoy a cultural fair and Cosplay with more than 50 stands of Asian products, manga, anime and Japanese art.
📅 January 18 and 19. From 12hs.
📍 Thames 747
🎟 Admission: Free
17. Cumbia Konex
Cumbia Konex turns 9 years old and celebrates with Damas Gratis, La Champion Liga, Antonio Ríos, Tambó Tambó, Los Charros and Los Gedes. If you are over 18 and want to celebrate summer all night long, it’s a super extra long edition, you have to add Cumbia Konex to your plans for this weekend in Buenos Aires.
📍Sarmiento 3131
January 18. 7pm to 5.30pm
18. Dragon Boat Race for Chinese New Year 2025.
The Chinese New Year, the year of the Snake, is approaching and in Buenos Aires you can celebrate it with the annual Dragon Boat race. Mark on your calendar January 19 in the waters of Dock 1 in Puerto Madero. Enjoy an unusual activity in Buenos Aires and don’t miss the closing night and the awards ceremony.
📅 January 19. From 9 am to 8 pm.
19. Wines and sunset
This January 16 you can watch the sunset with a glass of excellent wine and a tasting of many more at the Novotel hotel. If you are wondering what to do on a summer evening in Buenos Aires, one proposal is this unique sensory and gastronomic experience at Sunset Wine. An exclusive evening where the flavors and aromas of exceptional wines merge with carefully selected dishes to pair to perfection.
📅 January 16 at 7.30 p.m.
20. New Sensations at La Rural
New Sensations is the new Blow Up Experience that this summer you can also add to your January and February outings in Buenos Aires. New Sensations is an interactive exhibition that combines lighting and inflatable art with technology and virtual reality to offer you a tour that awakens every one of your sensations.
New Sensations Experience
📍La Rural – Santa Fé 4363
📅From January 10. Every day