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La Paz
The Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas sign, Las Vegas
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Photos: Las Vegas by Christian David, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Paz or Las Vegas?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Las Vegas for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Las Vegas’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, Las Vegas 10: Las Vegas leads by 7 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Las Vegas 68: Las Vegas leads by 18 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Las Vegas 25: La Paz leads by 27 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Las Vegas 88: Las Vegas leads by 50 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Las Vegas 68: La Paz leads by 14 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Las Vegas 25: La Paz leads by 15 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Las Vegas 25: Las Vegas leads by 15 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Las Vegas 38: La Paz leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Las Vegas 64: Las Vegas leads by 19 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Las Vegas 35: La Paz leads by 57 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Las Vegas 78: Las Vegas leads by 43 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Las Vegas 40: Las Vegas leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Las Vegas.

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.

Las Vegas
Best match
47match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts 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
11 hdaylight a day

Las Vegas in July

40 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
14 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. La Paz: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. Las Vegas: 1991-2020 normals, McCarran International Airport (8.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazLas Vegas
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, Guarani-
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAC50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation3,640 m610 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsHarry Reid International Airport (LAS)4 km from centre159 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazLas Vegas
City population755,732641,903
People per km²1,6011,843
Museums within 10 km2121
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.