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Photos: Honolulu by Jess Loiterton, Pexels License.

Honolulu 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 Honolulu for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

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

Choose La Paz for

  • prices
  • day trips

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. Honolulu 91, La Paz 3: Honolulu leads by 88 points.
Food & drink. Honolulu 70, La Paz 50: Honolulu leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Honolulu 55, La Paz 52: Honolulu leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Honolulu 45, La Paz 38: Honolulu leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. Honolulu 88, La Paz 82: Honolulu leads by 6 points.
Day trips. Honolulu 38, La Paz 40: La Paz leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Honolulu 80, La Paz 10: Honolulu leads by 70 points.
Getting around. Honolulu 52, La Paz 45: Honolulu leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. Honolulu 60, La Paz 45: Honolulu leads by 15 points.
Affordability. Honolulu 15, La Paz 92: La Paz leads by 77 points.
Live music & performing arts. Honolulu 40, La Paz 35: Honolulu leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Honolulu 50, La Paz 12: Honolulu leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Honolulu and La Paz.

Your match

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

Honolulu
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and families with your weighting.

La Paz
42match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Honolulu in July

31 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
13 mmrain in the month
26 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

La Paz in July

13 °Cdaytime high
-2 °Cnight-time low
16 mmrain in the month
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

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. Honolulu: 1991-2020 normals, Honolulu International Airport (10.1 km from centre). La Paz: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureHonoluluLa Paz
Official language-Spanish, Aymara, Quechua, Guarani
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Boliviano (BOB)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzAC50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-10UTC-4
Emergency number911911
Elevation12 m3,640 m
Main airportDaniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL)7 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureHonoluluLa Paz
City population350,964755,732
People per km²1,9811,601
Museums within 10 km1221
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.