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Bangkok or La Paz?

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 Bangkok for

  • wellness
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose La Paz for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on La Paz’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. Bangkok 12, La Paz 3: Bangkok leads by 9 points.
Food & drink. Bangkok 95, La Paz 50: Bangkok leads by 45 points.
Culture & sights. Bangkok 80, La Paz 52: Bangkok leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Bangkok 85, La Paz 38: Bangkok leads by 47 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bangkok 25, La Paz 82: La Paz leads by 57 points.
Day trips. Bangkok 72, La Paz 40: Bangkok leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Bangkok 50, La Paz 10: Bangkok leads by 40 points.
Getting around. Bangkok 50, La Paz 45: Bangkok leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Bangkok 80, La Paz 45: Bangkok leads by 35 points.
Affordability. Bangkok 85, La Paz 92: La Paz leads by 7 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bangkok 52, La Paz 35: Bangkok leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bangkok 75, La Paz 12: Bangkok leads by 63 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bangkok and La Paz.

Your match

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

Bangkok
Best match
63match

Wins on wellness and nightlife with your weighting.

La Paz
42match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Bangkok in July

34 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
184 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

La Paz in July

13 °Cdaytime high
-2 °Cnight-time low
16 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

La Paz has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). La Paz: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBangkokLa Paz
Official languageThaiSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, Guarani
CurrencyBaht (THB)Boliviano (BOB)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzAC50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-4
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199911
Elevation2 m3,640 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokLa Paz
City population5,676,648755,732
People per km²3,6191,601
Museums within 10 km5921
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.