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The Centro Civico and its clock tower, Bariloche
BarilocheThe Centro Civico and its clock tower
Mountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola, Telluride
TellurideMountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola

Photos: Bariloche by Maclemo, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped; Telluride by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Bariloche or Telluride?

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
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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

Choose Telluride for

  • getting around
  • live music and the arts
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Telluride’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, Telluride 5: Bariloche leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Bariloche 44, Telluride 38: Bariloche leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Bariloche 27, Telluride 20: Bariloche leads by 7 points.
Nightlife. Bariloche 33, Telluride 20: Bariloche leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bariloche 94, Telluride 93: Bariloche leads by 1 points.
Day trips. Bariloche 38, Telluride 30: Bariloche leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Bariloche 55, Telluride 45: Bariloche leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Bariloche 44, Telluride 66: Telluride leads by 22 points.
Shopping & style. Bariloche 33, Telluride 25: Bariloche leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Bariloche 46, Telluride 7: Bariloche leads by 39 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bariloche 27, Telluride 35: Telluride leads by 8 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bariloche 40, Telluride 45: Telluride leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bariloche and Telluride.

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 beaches with your weighting.

Telluride
36match

Wins on getting around and live music and the arts 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

Telluride in July

23 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
58 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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Where the figures come from

Telluride 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). Telluride: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Telluride / Lime (8.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBarilocheTelluride
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 m2,667 m
Main airportTeniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)12 km from centre17 non-stop destinationsMontrose Regional Airport (MTJ)64 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year16 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBarilocheTelluride
City population136,3812,607
People per km²6191,372
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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.