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The Centro Civico and its clock tower, Bariloche
BarilocheThe Centro Civico and its clock tower
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Bariloche by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Bariloche or Sedona?

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

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • getting around

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

Choose Sedona for

  • wellness
  • day trips
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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, Sedona 16: Bariloche leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Bariloche 44, Sedona 33: Bariloche leads by 11 points.
Culture & sights. Bariloche 27, Sedona 20: Bariloche leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Bariloche 33, Sedona 8: Bariloche leads by 25 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bariloche 94, Sedona 93: Bariloche leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Bariloche 38, Sedona 55: Sedona leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Bariloche 55, Sedona 42: Bariloche leads by 13 points.
Getting around. Bariloche 44, Sedona 22: Bariloche leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Bariloche 33, Sedona 34: Sedona leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Bariloche 46, Sedona 18: Bariloche leads by 28 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bariloche 27, Sedona 13: Bariloche leads by 14 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bariloche 40, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 42 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bariloche and Sedona.

Your match

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

Bariloche
Best match
42match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

Wins on wellness 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
10 hdaylight a day

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine 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

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona 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). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarilocheSedona
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-7
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation794 m1,319 m
Main airportTeniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)12 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarilocheSedona
City population136,3819,684
People per km²619195
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

Where else could you go?

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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.