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The Centro Civico and its clock tower, Bariloche
BarilocheThe Centro Civico and its clock tower
The white medina above the harbour walls, Essaouira
EssaouiraThe white medina above the harbour walls

Photos: Bariloche by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Essaouira by Manel Cusido, Pexels License.

Bariloche or Essaouira?

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
  • day trips
  • nightlife

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

Choose Essaouira for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Essaouira’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, Essaouira 47: Essaouira leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Bariloche and Essaouira are level on 44.
Culture & sights. Bariloche 27, Essaouira 48: Essaouira leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Bariloche 33, Essaouira 14: Bariloche leads by 19 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bariloche 94, Essaouira 57: Bariloche leads by 37 points.
Day trips. Bariloche 38, Essaouira 17: Bariloche leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Bariloche 55, Essaouira 42: Bariloche leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Bariloche 44, Essaouira 58: Essaouira leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Bariloche 33, Essaouira 44: Essaouira leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Bariloche 46, Essaouira 74: Essaouira leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bariloche 27, Essaouira 28: Essaouira leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bariloche 40, Essaouira 66: Essaouira leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bariloche and Essaouira.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Essaouira
Best match
45match

Wins on prices and wellness 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

Essaouira in July

22 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
20 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Essaouira 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). Essaouira: 1991-2020 normals, Essaouira (1.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarilocheEssaouira
Official languageSpanishArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1
Emergency number117 or 911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation794 m11 m
Main airportTeniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)12 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsEssaouira-Mogador Airport (ESU)15 km from centre13 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarilocheEssaouira
City population136,38182,962
People per km²61916,592
Museums within 10 km32
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.