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The clock tower in the old town, Kotor
KotorThe clock tower in the old town
La Paz

Photos: Kotor by Muhammed Fatih Beki, Pexels License.

Kotor 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 Kotor for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

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

Choose La Paz for

  • prices
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

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. Kotor 57, La Paz 3: Kotor leads by 54 points.
Food & drink. Kotor 37, La Paz 50: La Paz leads by 13 points.
Culture & sights. Kotor 55, La Paz 52: Kotor leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. Kotor 30, La Paz 38: La Paz leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. Kotor 80, La Paz 82: La Paz leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Kotor 72, La Paz 40: Kotor leads by 32 points.
Good for families. Kotor 36, La Paz 10: Kotor leads by 26 points.
Getting around. Kotor 48, La Paz 45: Kotor leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Kotor 20, La Paz 45: La Paz leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Kotor 57, La Paz 92: La Paz leads by 35 points.
Live music & performing arts. Kotor 20, La Paz 35: La Paz leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Kotor 24, La Paz 12: Kotor leads by 12 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Kotor and La Paz.

Your match

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

Kotor
Best match
45match

Wins on beaches and day trips with your weighting.

La Paz
42match

Wins on prices and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Kotor in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 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

Kotor 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.

Kotor's sunshine is measured 42 km from the centre, at Podgorica-Grad.

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. Kotor: 1991-2020 normals, Tivat (4.2 km from centre). La Paz: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureKotorLa Paz
Official languageMontenegrinSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, Guarani
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Boliviano (BOB)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzAC50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-4
Emergency number112911
Elevation10 m3,640 m
Main airportTivat Airport (TIV)5 km from centre42 non-stop destinationsEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureKotorLa Paz
City population562755,732
People per km²-1,601
Museums within 10 km321
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km31
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months-

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Sources

Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national 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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.