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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 the old town, San Miguel de Allende
San Miguel de AllendeA cobbled street of painted houses in the old town

Photos: Bariloche by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; San Miguel de Allende by Russ Bowling, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Bariloche or San Miguel de Allende?

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
  • beaches
  • families

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

Choose San Miguel de Allende for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on San Miguel de Allende’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 Miguel de Allende 4: Bariloche leads by 23 points.
Food & drink. Bariloche 44, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. Bariloche 27, San Miguel de Allende 62: San Miguel de Allende leads by 35 points.
Nightlife. Bariloche 33, San Miguel de Allende 38: San Miguel de Allende leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bariloche 94, San Miguel de Allende 40: Bariloche leads by 54 points.
Day trips. Bariloche 38, San Miguel de Allende 77: San Miguel de Allende leads by 39 points.
Good for families. Bariloche 55, San Miguel de Allende 32: Bariloche leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Bariloche 44, San Miguel de Allende 48: San Miguel de Allende leads by 4 points.
Shopping & style. Bariloche 33, San Miguel de Allende 55: San Miguel de Allende leads by 22 points.
Affordability. Bariloche 46, San Miguel de Allende 50: San Miguel de Allende leads by 4 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bariloche 27, San Miguel de Allende 40: San Miguel de Allende leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bariloche 40, San Miguel de Allende 66: San Miguel de Allende leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bariloche and San Miguel de Allende.

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 beaches with your weighting.

San Miguel de Allende
Best match
48match

Wins on day trips 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
10 hdaylight a day

San Miguel de Allende in July

29 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
132 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
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

San Miguel de Allende's temperatures are measured 54 km from the centre, at Guanajuato, Gto..

San Miguel de Allende 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). San Miguel de Allende: 1991-2020 normals, Guanajuato, Gto. (53.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarilocheSan Miguel de Allende
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 m1,900 m
Main airportTeniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)12 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsGuanajuato International Airport (BJX)77 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarilocheSan Miguel de Allende
City population136,38169,811
People per km²619-
Museums within 10 km32
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02

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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. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.