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Brussels 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 Brussels for

  • families
  • day trips
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose La Paz for

  • prices
  • nature and the outdoors

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. Brussels 18, La Paz 3: Brussels leads by 15 points.
Food & drink. Brussels 72, La Paz 50: Brussels leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. Brussels 74, La Paz 52: Brussels leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. Brussels 60, La Paz 38: Brussels leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. Brussels 45, La Paz 82: La Paz leads by 37 points.
Day trips. Brussels 89, La Paz 40: Brussels leads by 49 points.
Good for families. Brussels 60, La Paz 10: Brussels leads by 50 points.
Getting around. Brussels 72, La Paz 45: Brussels leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. Brussels 62, La Paz 45: Brussels leads by 17 points.
Affordability. Brussels 40, La Paz 92: La Paz leads by 52 points.
Live music & performing arts. Brussels 68, La Paz 35: Brussels leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Brussels 33, La Paz 12: Brussels leads by 21 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Brussels and La Paz.

Your match

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

Brussels
Best match
58match

Wins on families and day trips 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.

Brussels in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
16 hdaylight a day

La Paz in July

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

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BrusselsLa Paz

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. Brussels: 1991-2020 normals, Uccle (5.2 km from centre). La Paz: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureBrusselsLa 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
Elevation70 m3,640 m
Main airportBrussels Airport (BRU)11 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

MeasureBrusselsLa Paz
City population195,546755,732
People per km²5,9081,601
Museums within 10 km10621
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km101

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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). 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.