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The pyramids of Giza, Cairo
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La Paz

Photos: Cairo by Ricardo Liberato, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Cairo 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 Cairo for

  • culture and sights
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose La Paz for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • getting around

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. Cairo 10, La Paz 3: Cairo leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. Cairo 60, La Paz 50: Cairo leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Cairo 96, La Paz 52: Cairo leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. Cairo 48, La Paz 38: Cairo leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cairo 30, La Paz 82: La Paz leads by 52 points.
Day trips. Cairo 66, La Paz 40: Cairo leads by 26 points.
Good for families. Cairo 32, La Paz 10: Cairo leads by 22 points.
Getting around. Cairo 35, La Paz 45: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. Cairo 58, La Paz 45: Cairo leads by 13 points.
Affordability. Cairo 95, La Paz 92: Cairo leads by 3 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cairo 50, La Paz 35: Cairo leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cairo 15, La Paz 12: Cairo leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cairo and La Paz.

Your match

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

Cairo
Best match
50match

Wins on culture and sights and day trips with your weighting.

La Paz
42match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and getting around with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Cairo in July

36 °Cdaytime high
23 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
14 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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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. Cairo: 1991-2020 normals, Helwan (21.9 km from centre). La Paz: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureCairoLa Paz
Official languageArabicSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, Guarani
CurrencyEgyptian Pound (EGP)Boliviano (BOB)
SocketsCF220 V, 50 HzAC50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-4
Emergency numberPolice 122, ambulance 123, fire 180911
Elevation23 m3,640 m
Main airportCairo International Airport (CAI)17 km from centre127 non-stop destinationsEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCairoLa Paz
City population9,801,536755,732
People per km²18,5641,601
Museums within 10 km4821
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km21

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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. 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.