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Clearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier, Clearwater
ClearwaterClearwater Beach in evening light, with its hotels and pier
A cable car over the brick-red houses, La Paz
La PazA cable car over the brick-red houses

Photos: Clearwater by ajay_suresh, CC BY 2.0, cropped; La Paz by Arabsalam, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

Clearwater 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 Clearwater for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose La Paz for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • 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. Clearwater 90, La Paz 3: Clearwater leads by 87 points.
Food & drink. Clearwater 38, La Paz 50: La Paz leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. Clearwater 18, La Paz 52: La Paz leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Clearwater 34, La Paz 38: La Paz leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Clearwater 55, La Paz 82: La Paz leads by 27 points.
Day trips. Clearwater 58, La Paz 40: Clearwater leads by 18 points.
Good for families. Clearwater 78, La Paz 10: Clearwater leads by 68 points.
Getting around. Clearwater 28, La Paz 45: La Paz leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. Clearwater 27, La Paz 45: La Paz leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Clearwater 35, La Paz 92: La Paz leads by 57 points.
Live music & performing arts. Clearwater 36, La Paz 35: Clearwater leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Clearwater 40, La Paz 12: Clearwater leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Clearwater and La Paz.

Your match

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

Clearwater
Best match
45match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

La Paz
42match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Clearwater in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
188 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 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

Clearwater 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.

Clearwater's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Tampa International Airport.

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. Clearwater: 2006-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Saint Petersburg / High Point (12.7 km from centre). La Paz: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureClearwaterLa Paz
Official language-Spanish, Aymara, Quechua, Guarani
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Boliviano (BOB)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAC50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number911911
Elevation9 m3,640 m
Main airportSt. Petersburg Clearwater International Airport (PIE)13 km from centre60 non-stop destinationsEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureClearwaterLa Paz
City population117,292755,732
People per km²1,1541,601
Museums within 10 km421
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. 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.