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The Centro Civico and its clock tower, Bariloche
BarilocheThe Centro Civico and its clock tower
Skiers among snow-covered firs, Beaver Creek
Beaver CreekSkiers among snow-covered firs

Photos: Bariloche by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Beaver Creek by Joe Lin, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bariloche or Beaver Creek?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Bariloche for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Bariloche’s own page.

Choose Beaver Creek for

  • wellness
  • live music and the arts
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Beaver Creek’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Bariloche 27, Beaver Creek 6: Bariloche leads by 21 points.
Food & drink. Bariloche 44, Beaver Creek 38: Bariloche leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Bariloche 27, Beaver Creek 7: Bariloche leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Bariloche 33, Beaver Creek 12: Bariloche leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bariloche 94, Beaver Creek 90: Bariloche leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Bariloche 38, Beaver Creek 40: Beaver Creek leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Bariloche 55, Beaver Creek 62: Beaver Creek leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Bariloche 44, Beaver Creek 45: Beaver Creek leads by 1 points.
Shopping & style. Bariloche 33, Beaver Creek 22: Bariloche leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Bariloche 46, Beaver Creek 5: Bariloche leads by 41 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bariloche 27, Beaver Creek 36: Beaver Creek leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bariloche 40, Beaver Creek 55: Beaver Creek leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bariloche and Beaver Creek.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Bariloche
Best match
42match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Beaver Creek
35match

Wins on wellness and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bariloche in July

8 °Cdaytime high
-1 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
10 hdaylight a day

Beaver Creek in July

29 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BarilocheBeaver Creek

Where the figures come from

Beaver Creek's temperatures are measured 34 km from the centre, at Eagle County / Gypsum.

Beaver Creek's station stands 268 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Beaver Creek has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bariloche: 1991-2020 normals, Bariloche Aerodrome (11.2 km from centre). Beaver Creek: 1992-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Eagle County / Gypsum (33.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarilocheBeaver Creek
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation794 m2,264 m
Main airportTeniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)12 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)34 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarilocheBeaver Creek
City population136,381-
People per km²619-
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.