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The Centro Civico and its clock tower, Bariloche
BarilocheThe Centro Civico and its clock tower
Skiers at the foot of the slopes in the village, Copper Mountain
Copper MountainSkiers at the foot of the slopes in the village

Photos: Bariloche by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Copper Mountain by SparkFunElectronics, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bariloche or Copper Mountain?

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
  • shopping
  • beaches

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

Choose Copper Mountain for

  • day trips
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Copper Mountain’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, Copper Mountain 3: Bariloche leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Bariloche 44, Copper Mountain 20: Bariloche leads by 24 points.
Culture & sights. Bariloche 27, Copper Mountain 4: Bariloche leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Bariloche 33, Copper Mountain 12: Bariloche leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bariloche 94, Copper Mountain 90: Bariloche leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Bariloche 38, Copper Mountain 55: Copper Mountain leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Bariloche 55, Copper Mountain 62: Copper Mountain leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Bariloche 44, Copper Mountain 48: Copper Mountain leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Bariloche 33, Copper Mountain 8: Bariloche leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Bariloche 46, Copper Mountain 18: Bariloche leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bariloche 27, Copper Mountain 8: Bariloche leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bariloche 40, Copper Mountain 28: Bariloche leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bariloche and Copper Mountain.

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 shopping with your weighting.

Copper Mountain
30match

Wins on day trips and families 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

Copper Mountain in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
41 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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BarilocheCopper Mountain

Where the figures come from

Copper Mountain's temperatures are measured 35 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Copper Mountain 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). Copper Mountain: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (35.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarilocheCopper Mountain
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 m2,955 m
Main airportTeniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)12 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)132 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarilocheCopper Mountain
City population136,381650
People per km²6198
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.