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The Centro Civico and its clock tower, Bariloche
BarilocheThe Centro Civico and its clock tower
Barlas Island in Honda Bay, Puerto Princesa
Puerto PrincesaBarlas Island in Honda Bay

Photos: Bariloche by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Puerto Princesa by Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bariloche or Puerto Princesa?

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

  • day trips
  • live music and the arts
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Puerto Princesa for

  • prices
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Puerto Princesa’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, Puerto Princesa 58: Puerto Princesa leads by 31 points.
Food & drink. Bariloche 44, Puerto Princesa 38: Bariloche leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Bariloche 27, Puerto Princesa 22: Bariloche leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Bariloche 33, Puerto Princesa 26: Bariloche leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bariloche 94, Puerto Princesa 80: Bariloche leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Bariloche 38, Puerto Princesa 12: Bariloche leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Bariloche 55, Puerto Princesa 45: Bariloche leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Bariloche 44, Puerto Princesa 30: Bariloche leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Bariloche 33, Puerto Princesa 20: Bariloche leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Bariloche 46, Puerto Princesa 78: Puerto Princesa leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bariloche 27, Puerto Princesa 10: Bariloche leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bariloche and Puerto Princesa are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bariloche and Puerto Princesa.

Your match

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

Bariloche
Best match
42match

Wins on day trips and live music and the arts with your weighting.

Puerto Princesa
38match

Wins on prices and beaches 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

Puerto Princesa in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
216 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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

Puerto Princesa 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). Puerto Princesa: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBarilochePuerto Princesa
Official languageSpanishEnglish, Filipino, Taglish
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)Philippine Peso (PHP)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzABC220 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+8
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation794 m98 m
Main airportTeniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)12 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsPuerto Princesa International Airport / PAF Antonio Bautista Air Base (PPS)2 km from centre5 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days18 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarilochePuerto Princesa
City population136,381316,384
People per km²619133
Museums within 10 km31
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. 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.