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The Centro Civico and its clock tower, Bariloche
BarilocheThe Centro Civico and its clock tower
The Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance

Photos: Bariloche by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Bariloche or Keystone?

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
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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

Choose Keystone for

  • day trips
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Keystone’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, Keystone 5: Bariloche leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Bariloche 44, Keystone 27: Bariloche leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. Bariloche 27, Keystone 7: Bariloche leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Bariloche 33, Keystone 12: Bariloche leads by 21 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bariloche 94, Keystone 93: Bariloche leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Bariloche 38, Keystone 55: Keystone leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Bariloche 55, Keystone 66: Keystone leads by 11 points.
Getting around. Bariloche 44, Keystone 50: Keystone leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Bariloche 33, Keystone 22: Bariloche leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Bariloche 46, Keystone 12: Bariloche leads by 34 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bariloche 27, Keystone 22: Bariloche leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bariloche 40, Keystone 32: Bariloche leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bariloche and Keystone.

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 beaches with your weighting.

Keystone
34match

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

Keystone in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 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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Where the figures come from

Keystone's temperatures are measured 51 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Keystone's station stands 232 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Keystone 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). Keystone: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (50.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarilocheKeystone
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 m2,796 m
Main airportTeniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)12 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsDenver International Airport (DEN)116 km from centre231 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarilocheKeystone
City population136,3811,369
People per km²61913
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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. 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.