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La Paz
Fishing boats in the harbour, La Spezia
La SpeziaFishing boats in the harbour

Photos: La Spezia by Irina Balashova, Pexels License.

La Paz or La Spezia?

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 La Paz for

  • prices
  • culture and sights
  • nightlife

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

Choose La Spezia for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on La Spezia’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. La Paz 3, La Spezia 60: La Spezia leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, La Spezia 58: La Spezia leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, La Spezia 40: La Paz leads by 12 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, La Spezia 28: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, La Spezia 79: La Paz leads by 3 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, La Spezia 87: La Spezia leads by 47 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, La Spezia 48: La Spezia leads by 38 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, La Spezia 70: La Spezia leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, La Spezia 35: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, La Spezia 50: La Paz leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, La Spezia 28: La Paz leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, La Spezia 32: La Spezia leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and La Spezia.

Your match

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

La Paz
42match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

La Spezia
Best match
51match

Wins on beaches 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.

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

La Spezia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
20 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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.

La Spezia's temperatures are measured 65 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

La Spezia 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. La Paz: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. La Spezia: 1991-2020 normals, Pisa / S. Giusto (64.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazLa Spezia
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniItalian
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAC50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3,640 m3 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsPisa International Airport (PSA)65 km from centre82 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazLa Spezia
City population755,73292,119
People per km²1,6011,792
Museums within 10 km2112
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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). 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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.