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The Centro Civico and its clock tower, Bariloche
BarilocheThe Centro Civico and its clock tower
The Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock, Petra
PetraThe Treasury, Al-Khazneh, cut into the rock

Photos: Bariloche by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Petra by Yasir Gürbüz, Pexels License.

Bariloche or Petra?

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

  • families
  • nightlife
  • beaches

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

Choose Petra for

  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Petra’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, Petra 5: Bariloche leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Bariloche 44, Petra 22: Bariloche leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Bariloche 27, Petra 85: Petra leads by 58 points.
Nightlife. Bariloche 33, Petra 5: Bariloche leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bariloche 94, Petra 78: Bariloche leads by 16 points.
Day trips. Bariloche 38, Petra 30: Bariloche leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Bariloche 55, Petra 25: Bariloche leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Bariloche 44, Petra 25: Bariloche leads by 19 points.
Shopping & style. Bariloche 33, Petra 18: Bariloche leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Bariloche 46, Petra 45: Bariloche leads by 1 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bariloche 27, Petra 10: Bariloche leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bariloche 40, Petra 28: Bariloche leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bariloche and Petra.

Your match

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

Bariloche
Best match
42match

Wins on families and nightlife with your weighting.

Petra
31match

Wins on culture and sights 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

Petra in July

35 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
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

Petra's temperatures are measured 34 km from the centre, at Ma'An.

Petra's station stands 219 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Petra 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). Petra: 1991-2020 normals, Ma'An (33.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarilochePetra
Official languageSpanishArabic
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Jordanian Dinar (JOD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzBCFGJ230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+3
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation794 m850 m
Main airportTeniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)12 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsKing Hussein International Airport (AQJ)90 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days-

By the numbers

MeasureBarilochePetra
City population136,381-
People per km²619-
Museums within 10 km32
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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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. 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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.