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La Paz
The railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield, Manchester
ManchesterThe railway viaduct over the canal, Castlefield

Photos: Manchester by IIya Kuzhekin, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

La Paz or Manchester?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Manchester for

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Manchester’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, Manchester 9: Manchester leads by 6 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Manchester 51: Manchester leads by 1 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Manchester 50: La Paz leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Manchester 72: Manchester leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Manchester 64: La Paz leads by 18 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Manchester 77: Manchester leads by 37 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Manchester 58: Manchester leads by 48 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Manchester 68: Manchester leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Manchester 62: Manchester leads by 17 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Manchester 42: La Paz leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Manchester 74: Manchester leads by 39 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Manchester 15: Manchester leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Manchester.

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.

Manchester
Best match
54match

Wins on families 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
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Manchester in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
60 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 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. Manchester: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (14.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazManchester
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniEnglish
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsAC50 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency number911112 or 999
Elevation3,640 m38 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsManchester Airport (MAN)15 km from centre211 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazManchester
City population755,732547,627
People per km²1,6014,737
Museums within 10 km2128
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. 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.