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La Paz
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Photos: Manaus by Jardelsliumba, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Paz or Manaus?

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
  • day trips
  • getting around

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

Choose Manaus for

  • beaches
  • families
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Manaus’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, Manaus 38: Manaus leads by 35 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Manaus 56: Manaus leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Manaus 46: La Paz leads by 6 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Manaus 42: Manaus leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Manaus 86: Manaus leads by 4 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Manaus 12: La Paz leads by 28 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Manaus 35: Manaus leads by 25 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Manaus 27: La Paz leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Manaus 36: La Paz leads by 9 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Manaus 63: La Paz leads by 29 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Manaus 54: Manaus leads by 19 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Manaus 20: Manaus leads by 8 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Manaus.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

La Paz
42match

Wins on prices and day trips with your weighting.

Manaus
43match

Wins on beaches and families 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

Manaus in July

33 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
12 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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La PazManaus

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

Before you go

MeasureLa PazManaus
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniPortuguese
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsAC50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-4
Emergency number911Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation3,640 m92 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsEduardo Gomes International Airport (MAO)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazManaus
City population755,7322,303,732
People per km²1,601202
Museums within 10 km2113
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11

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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.