How to pronounce “buenos días” in Spanish

How to pronounce "buenos días" in 3 Spanish accents

Slashes show the phonetic spelling (IPA) — how it sounds, not how it’s written. . separates syllables; ˈ marks the stressed one.

Voices are generated separately from the transcription and may not reflect it exactly. Real speakers vary.

About "buenos días"

"Buenos días" is your go-to greeting for the morning hours, used from sunrise until around noon when you'd switch to buenas tardes. Think of it as a two-word package — buenos meaning good and días meaning days, so you're literally wishing someone good days, a small reminder that Spanish greetings carry a warmer plural weight than their English counterparts. For pronunciation, the trickiest part is the d in días, which softens into a sound closer to the th in the English word the — not the hard d you'd use starting a word like dog. That's actually the number one mistake English speakers make: hardening both d's, which sounds unnatural to native ears. In Mexican Spanish you'll hear both syllables of buenos spoken fairly fully and clearly. In Castilian Spanish the rhythm stays similar but the overall accent sharpens. In Rioplatense Spanish, spoken in Argentina and Uruguay, the s at the end of buenos often gets aspirated into a breathy h-like sound, so it lands closer to buenoh días in casual speech.