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The Centro Civico and its clock tower, Bariloche
BarilocheThe Centro Civico and its clock tower
The Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens, Edinburgh
EdinburghThe Scott Monument and Princes Street Gardens

Photos: Bariloche by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Edinburgh by Carlos Delgado, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bariloche or Edinburgh?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • wellness

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

Choose Edinburgh for

  • culture and sights
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Edinburgh’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, Edinburgh 22: Bariloche leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. Bariloche 44, Edinburgh 53: Edinburgh leads by 9 points.
Culture & sights. Bariloche 27, Edinburgh 75: Edinburgh leads by 48 points.
Nightlife. Bariloche 33, Edinburgh 50: Edinburgh leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bariloche 94, Edinburgh 75: Bariloche leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Bariloche 38, Edinburgh 75: Edinburgh leads by 37 points.
Good for families. Bariloche 55, Edinburgh 62: Edinburgh leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Bariloche 44, Edinburgh 74: Edinburgh leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. Bariloche 33, Edinburgh 50: Edinburgh leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Bariloche 46, Edinburgh 30: Bariloche leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bariloche 27, Edinburgh 72: Edinburgh leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bariloche 40, Edinburgh 34: Bariloche leads by 6 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bariloche and Edinburgh.

Your match

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

Bariloche
42match

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

Edinburgh
Best match
56match

Wins on culture and sights 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
No seasea
10 hdaylight a day

Edinburgh in July

19 °Cdaytime high
11 °Cnight-time low
66 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
14 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BarilocheEdinburgh

Where the figures come from

Edinburgh 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.

Edinburgh's sunshine is measured 52 km from the centre, at Leuchars.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bariloche: 1991-2020 normals, Bariloche Aerodrome (11.2 km from centre). Edinburgh: 1991-2020 normals, Edinburgh Airport (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarilocheEdinburgh
Official languageSpanishEnglish
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911112 or 999
Elevation794 m47 m
Main airportTeniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)12 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsEdinburgh Airport (EDI)11 km from centre163 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarilocheEdinburgh
City population136,381488,050
People per km²6191,884
Museums within 10 km332
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

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