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The Centro Civico and its clock tower, Bariloche
BarilocheThe Centro Civico and its clock tower
The old railway depot in the snow, Steamboat Springs
Steamboat SpringsThe old railway depot in the snow

Photos: Bariloche by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Steamboat Springs by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

Bariloche or Steamboat Springs?

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
  • day trips
  • beaches

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

Choose Steamboat Springs for

  • wellness
  • families
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Steamboat Springs’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, Steamboat Springs 7: Bariloche leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Bariloche 44, Steamboat Springs 30: Bariloche leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. Bariloche 27, Steamboat Springs 14: Bariloche leads by 13 points.
Nightlife. Bariloche 33, Steamboat Springs 20: Bariloche leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bariloche 94, Steamboat Springs 88: Bariloche leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Bariloche 38, Steamboat Springs 12: Bariloche leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Bariloche 55, Steamboat Springs 62: Steamboat Springs leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Bariloche 44, Steamboat Springs 46: Steamboat Springs leads by 2 points.
Shopping & style. Bariloche 33, Steamboat Springs 22: Bariloche leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Bariloche 46, Steamboat Springs 17: Bariloche leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bariloche 27, Steamboat Springs 28: Steamboat Springs leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bariloche 40, Steamboat Springs 70: Steamboat Springs leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bariloche and Steamboat Springs.

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 day trips with your weighting.

Steamboat Springs
35match

Wins on wellness and families 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

Steamboat Springs in July

28 °Cdaytime high
10 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BarilocheSteamboat Springs

Where the figures come from

Steamboat Springs 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). Steamboat Springs: 2011-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Steamboat Springs / Steamboat Ii (5.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarilocheSteamboat Springs
Official languageSpanish-
CurrencyArgentine Peso (ARS)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCI220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number117 or 911911
Elevation794 m2,052 m
Main airportTeniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)12 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsYampa Valley Airport (HDN)33 km from centre17 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarilocheSteamboat Springs
City population136,38113,224
People per km²619503
Museums within 10 km30
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.