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The Centro Civico and its clock tower, Bariloche
BarilocheThe Centro Civico and its clock tower
The Old Port and Le Suquet, Cannes
CannesThe Old Port and Le Suquet

Photos: Bariloche by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Cannes by qwesy qwesy, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Bariloche or Cannes?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Cannes for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Cannes’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, Cannes 80: Cannes leads by 53 points.
Food & drink. Bariloche 44, Cannes 55: Cannes leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Bariloche 27, Cannes 38: Cannes leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Bariloche 33, Cannes 42: Cannes leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bariloche 94, Cannes 72: Bariloche leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Bariloche 38, Cannes 86: Cannes leads by 48 points.
Good for families. Bariloche 55, Cannes 56: Cannes leads by 1 points.
Getting around. Bariloche 44, Cannes 68: Cannes leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Bariloche 33, Cannes 60: Cannes leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Bariloche 46, Cannes 22: Bariloche leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bariloche 27, Cannes 38: Cannes leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bariloche 40, Cannes 42: Cannes leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bariloche and Cannes.

Your match

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

Bariloche
42match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Cannes
Best match
55match

Wins on beaches and day trips 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
No seasea
10 hdaylight a day

Cannes in July

29 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bariloche: 1991-2020 normals, Bariloche Aerodrome (11.2 km from centre). Cannes: 2004-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Cannes (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarilocheCannes
Official languageSpanishFrench
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112
Elevation794 m0 m
Main airportTeniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)12 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)20 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarilocheCannes
City population136,38174,350
People per km²6193,793
Museums within 10 km316
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.