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The Centro Civico and its clock tower, Bariloche
BarilocheThe Centro Civico and its clock tower
A cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan, San Juan
San JuanA cobbled street of painted houses in Old San Juan

Photos: Bariloche by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; San Juan by Mohan Nannapaneni, Pexels License.

Bariloche or San Juan?

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
  • prices
  • getting around

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

Choose San Juan for

  • beaches
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on San Juan’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, San Juan 84: San Juan leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. Bariloche 44, San Juan 66: San Juan leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Bariloche 27, San Juan 64: San Juan leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. Bariloche 33, San Juan 70: San Juan leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bariloche 94, San Juan 74: Bariloche leads by 20 points.
Day trips. Bariloche 38, San Juan 52: San Juan leads by 14 points.
Good for families. Bariloche 55, San Juan 58: San Juan leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Bariloche 44, San Juan 38: Bariloche leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Bariloche 33, San Juan 50: San Juan leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Bariloche 46, San Juan 38: Bariloche leads by 8 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bariloche 27, San Juan 55: San Juan leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bariloche and San Juan are level on 40.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bariloche and San Juan.

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 prices with your weighting.

San Juan
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and 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
No seasea
10 hdaylight a day

San Juan in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
153 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BarilocheSan Juan

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bariloche: 1991-2020 normals, Bariloche Aerodrome (11.2 km from centre). San Juan: 1991-2020 normals, San Juan / Int., Puerto Rico (12.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarilocheSan Juan
Official languageSpanishSpanish, English
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-4
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation794 m3 m
Main airportTeniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)12 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsLuis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days21 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarilocheSan Juan
City population136,381342,259
People per km²6192,847
Museums within 10 km318
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. 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.