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The skyline and the Rocky Mountains over City Park and Ferril Lake, Denver
DenverThe skyline and the Rocky Mountains over City Park and Ferril Lake
La Paz

Photos: Denver by Zenhaus, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Denver 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 Denver for

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • wellness

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

Choose La Paz for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • 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. Denver 5, La Paz 3: Denver leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Denver 54, La Paz 50: Denver leads by 4 points.
Culture & sights. Denver 44, La Paz 52: La Paz leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. Denver 47, La Paz 38: Denver leads by 9 points.
Nature & outdoors. Denver 84, La Paz 82: Denver leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Denver 57, La Paz 40: Denver leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Denver 67, La Paz 10: Denver leads by 57 points.
Getting around. Denver 40, La Paz 45: La Paz leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. Denver 44, La Paz 45: La Paz leads by 1 points.
Affordability. Denver 36, La Paz 92: La Paz leads by 56 points.
Live music & performing arts. Denver 66, La Paz 35: Denver leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Denver 40, La Paz 12: Denver leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Denver and La Paz.

Your match

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

Denver
Best match
49match

Wins on families and live music and the arts 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.

Denver in July

32 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
55 mmrain in the month
15 hdaylight a day

La Paz in July

13 °Cdaytime high
-2 °Cnight-time low
16 mmrain in the month
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. Denver: 1991-2020 normals, Denver / Stapleton International, Co. (11.2 km from centre). La Paz: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureDenverLa Paz
Official language-Spanish, Aymara, Quechua, Guarani
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Boliviano (BOB)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAC50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number911911
Elevation1,609 m3,640 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)30 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureDenverLa Paz
City population715,522755,732
People per km²1,7831,601
Museums within 10 km2621
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01

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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). 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.