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The Centro Civico and its clock tower, Bariloche
BarilocheThe Centro Civico and its clock tower
The beach and the bay with the mountains behind, Nuevo Vallarta
Nuevo VallartaThe beach and the bay with the mountains behind

Photos: Bariloche by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Nuevo Vallarta by Harpqueen, Public domain.

Bariloche or Nuevo Vallarta?

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

  • culture and sights
  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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

Choose Nuevo Vallarta for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Nuevo Vallarta’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, Nuevo Vallarta 84: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Bariloche 44, Nuevo Vallarta 40: Bariloche leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Bariloche 27, Nuevo Vallarta 6: Bariloche leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Bariloche 33, Nuevo Vallarta 16: Bariloche leads by 17 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bariloche 94, Nuevo Vallarta 75: Bariloche leads by 19 points.
Day trips. Bariloche 38, Nuevo Vallarta 58: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Bariloche 55, Nuevo Vallarta 73: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 18 points.
Getting around. Bariloche 44, Nuevo Vallarta 25: Bariloche leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Bariloche 33, Nuevo Vallarta 22: Bariloche leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Bariloche 46, Nuevo Vallarta 45: Bariloche leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bariloche 27, Nuevo Vallarta 18: Bariloche leads by 9 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bariloche 40, Nuevo Vallarta 55: Nuevo Vallarta leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bariloche and Nuevo Vallarta.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bariloche
42match

Wins on culture and sights and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Nuevo Vallarta
43match

Wins on beaches and day trips 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

Nuevo Vallarta in July

34 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
206 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BarilocheNuevo Vallarta

Where the figures come from

Nuevo Vallarta has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bariloche: 1991-2020 normals, Bariloche Aerodrome (11.2 km from centre). Nuevo Vallarta: 1991-2020 normals, TerraClimate 4 km grid at the town, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBarilocheNuevo Vallarta
Official languageSpanishSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-6
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation794 m3 m
Main airportTeniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)12 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)4 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarilocheNuevo Vallarta
City population136,3811,301
People per km²619-
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.