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The Centro Civico and its clock tower, Bariloche
BarilocheThe Centro Civico and its clock tower
The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls

Photos: Bariloche by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bariloche or Ocho Rios?

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
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Ocho Rios for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Ocho Rios’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, Ocho Rios 78: Ocho Rios leads by 51 points.
Food & drink. Bariloche 44, Ocho Rios 42: Bariloche leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Bariloche 27, Ocho Rios 16: Bariloche leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. Bariloche 33, Ocho Rios 28: Bariloche leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bariloche 94, Ocho Rios 72: Bariloche leads by 22 points.
Day trips. Bariloche 38, Ocho Rios 56: Ocho Rios leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Bariloche 55, Ocho Rios 60: Ocho Rios leads by 5 points.
Getting around. Bariloche 44, Ocho Rios 24: Bariloche leads by 20 points.
Shopping & style. Bariloche 33, Ocho Rios 26: Bariloche leads by 7 points.
Affordability. Bariloche 46, Ocho Rios 42: Bariloche leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bariloche 27, Ocho Rios 14: Bariloche leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bariloche 40, Ocho Rios 50: Ocho Rios leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bariloche and Ocho Rios.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

Bariloche
42match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

Ocho Rios
42match

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

Ocho Rios in July

33 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Ocho Rios's temperatures are measured 62 km from the centre, at Kingston / Norman Manley.

Ocho Rios 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). Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarilocheOcho Rios
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-5
Emergency number117 or 911Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation794 m59 m
Main airportTeniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)12 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarilocheOcho Rios
City population136,38116,671
People per km²619-
Museums within 10 km30
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.