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The Centro Civico and its clock tower, Bariloche
BarilocheThe Centro Civico and its clock tower
The steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi, New Orleans
New OrleansThe steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi

Photos: Bariloche by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; New Orleans by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

Bariloche or New Orleans?

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
  • wellness
  • beaches

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

Choose New Orleans for

  • live music and the arts
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on New Orleans’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, New Orleans 14: Bariloche leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. Bariloche 44, New Orleans 84: New Orleans leads by 40 points.
Culture & sights. Bariloche 27, New Orleans 67: New Orleans leads by 40 points.
Nightlife. Bariloche 33, New Orleans 85: New Orleans leads by 52 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bariloche 94, New Orleans 42: Bariloche leads by 52 points.
Day trips. Bariloche 38, New Orleans 52: New Orleans leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Bariloche and New Orleans are level on 55.
Getting around. Bariloche 44, New Orleans 55: New Orleans leads by 11 points.
Shopping & style. Bariloche 33, New Orleans 54: New Orleans leads by 21 points.
Affordability. Bariloche 46, New Orleans 40: Bariloche leads by 6 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bariloche 27, New Orleans 80: New Orleans leads by 53 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bariloche 40, New Orleans 25: Bariloche leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bariloche and New Orleans.

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 wellness with your weighting.

New Orleans
Best match
54match

Wins on live music and the arts 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

New Orleans in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
169 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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BarilocheNew Orleans

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bariloche: 1991-2020 normals, Bariloche Aerodrome (11.2 km from centre). New Orleans: 1991-2020 normals, New Orleans Airport (2.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarilocheNew Orleans
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation794 m-2 m
Main airportTeniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)12 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsLouis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)18 km from centre51 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarilocheNew Orleans
City population136,381383,997
People per km²619423
Museums within 10 km316
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-7 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.