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Rozenhoedkaai and the Belfry, Bruges
BrugesRozenhoedkaai and the Belfry
La Paz

Photos: Bruges by Michielverbeek, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Bruges 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 Bruges for

  • day trips
  • families
  • getting around

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

Choose La Paz for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors
  • nightlife

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. Bruges 28, La Paz 3: Bruges leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. Bruges 56, La Paz 50: Bruges leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. Bruges 75, La Paz 52: Bruges leads by 23 points.
Nightlife. Bruges 27, La Paz 38: La Paz leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. Bruges 40, La Paz 82: La Paz leads by 42 points.
Day trips. Bruges 85, La Paz 40: Bruges leads by 45 points.
Good for families. Bruges 54, La Paz 10: Bruges leads by 44 points.
Getting around. Bruges 78, La Paz 45: Bruges leads by 33 points.
Shopping & style. Bruges and La Paz are level on 45.
Affordability. Bruges 36, La Paz 92: La Paz leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Bruges 40, La Paz 35: Bruges leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Bruges 40, La Paz 12: Bruges leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Bruges and La Paz.

Your match

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

Bruges
Best match
50match

Wins on day trips and families with your weighting.

La Paz
42match

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

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Bruges in July

21 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
77 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
16 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

Bruges 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.

Bruges's sunshine is measured 37 km from the centre, at Vlissingen.

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. Bruges: 2009-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zeebrugge / Zeemanshaard (15.8 km from centre). La Paz: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBrugesLa Paz
Official languageFrench, German, DutchSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, Guarani
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Boliviano (BOB)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzAC50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112911
Elevation2 m3,640 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)94 km from centre191 non-stop destinationsEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureBrugesLa Paz
City population118,509755,732
People per km²8401,601
Museums within 10 km3821
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates.

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.