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La Paz
The Royal Palace, Madrid
MadridThe Royal Palace

Photos: Madrid by Mert Ocak, Pexels License.

La Paz or Madrid?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Madrid for

  • families
  • day trips
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Madrid’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, Madrid 5: Madrid leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Madrid 80: Madrid leads by 30 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Madrid 86: Madrid leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Madrid 85: Madrid leads by 47 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Madrid 60: La Paz leads by 22 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Madrid 89: Madrid leads by 49 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Madrid 68: Madrid leads by 58 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Madrid 84: Madrid leads by 39 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Madrid 75: Madrid leads by 30 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Madrid 50: La Paz leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Madrid 77: Madrid leads by 42 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Madrid 36: Madrid leads by 24 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Madrid.

Your match

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

La Paz
42match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Madrid
Best match
66match

Wins on families 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
11 hdaylight a day

Madrid in July

33 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
9 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
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.

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. Madrid: 1991-2020 normals, Madrid (1.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazMadrid
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniSpanish
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAC50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3,640 m663 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)14 km from centre239 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazMadrid
City population755,7323,506,730
People per km²1,6015,801
Museums within 10 km2188
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14

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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. 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.