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The cathedral and Great St. Martin on the Rhine, Cologne
CologneThe cathedral and Great St. Martin on the Rhine
La Paz

Photos: Cologne by Jörg Braukmann, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Cologne 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 Cologne for

  • families
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Cologne’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. Cologne 14, La Paz 3: Cologne leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. Cologne 52, La Paz 50: Cologne leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. Cologne 67, La Paz 52: Cologne leads by 15 points.
Nightlife. Cologne 66, La Paz 38: Cologne leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. Cologne 56, La Paz 82: La Paz leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Cologne 80, La Paz 40: Cologne leads by 40 points.
Good for families. Cologne 70, La Paz 10: Cologne leads by 60 points.
Getting around. Cologne 74, La Paz 45: Cologne leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. Cologne 57, La Paz 45: Cologne leads by 12 points.
Affordability. Cologne 46, La Paz 92: La Paz leads by 46 points.
Live music & performing arts. Cologne 68, La Paz 35: Cologne leads by 33 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Cologne 50, La Paz 12: Cologne leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Cologne and La Paz.

Your match

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

Cologne
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.

Cologne in July

25 °Cdaytime high
16 °Cnight-time low
81 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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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. Cologne: 1991-2020 normals, Köln-Stammheim (5.4 km from centre). La Paz: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureCologneLa Paz
Official languageGermanSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, Guarani
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Boliviano (BOB)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAC50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112911
Elevation59 m3,640 m
Main airportCologne Bonn Airport (CGN)15 km from centre115 non-stop destinationsEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureCologneLa Paz
City population1,025,523755,732
People per km²2,5321,601
Museums within 10 km4021
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31

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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.