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The Centro Civico and its clock tower, Bariloche
BarilocheThe Centro Civico and its clock tower
Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West

Photos: Bariloche by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License.

Bariloche or Key West?

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
  • families

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

Choose Key West for

  • beaches
  • nightlife
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Key West’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, Key West 60: Key West leads by 33 points.
Food & drink. Bariloche 44, Key West 45: Key West leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. Bariloche 27, Key West 40: Key West leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Bariloche 33, Key West 62: Key West leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bariloche 94, Key West 62: Bariloche leads by 32 points.
Day trips. Bariloche 38, Key West 28: Bariloche leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Bariloche 55, Key West 40: Bariloche leads by 15 points.
Getting around. Bariloche 44, Key West 62: Key West leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Bariloche 33, Key West 30: Bariloche leads by 3 points.
Affordability. Bariloche 46, Key West 15: Bariloche leads by 31 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bariloche 27, Key West 38: Key West leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bariloche and Key West are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bariloche and Key West.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Bariloche
42match

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

Key West
44match

Wins on beaches and nightlife 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

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °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

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West 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). Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarilocheKey West
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation794 m4 m
Main airportTeniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)12 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarilocheKey West
City population136,38126,444
People per km²6191,407
Museums within 10 km37
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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.