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A cable car over the brick-red houses, La Paz
La PazA cable car over the brick-red houses
The harbour seen from above, Marmaris
MarmarisThe harbour seen from above

Photos: La Paz by Arabsalam, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Marmaris by Mstyslav Chernov, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

La Paz or Marmaris?

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

  • culture and sights
  • prices
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Marmaris for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Marmaris’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, Marmaris 80: Marmaris leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Marmaris 40: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Marmaris 18: La Paz leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Marmaris 60: Marmaris leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Marmaris 72: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Marmaris 65: Marmaris leads by 25 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Marmaris 62: Marmaris leads by 52 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Marmaris 55: Marmaris leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Marmaris 38: La Paz leads by 7 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Marmaris 62: La Paz leads by 30 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Marmaris 12: La Paz leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Marmaris 50: Marmaris leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Marmaris.

Your match

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

La Paz
42match

Wins on culture and sights and prices with your weighting.

Marmaris
Best match
51match

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 seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Marmaris in July

32 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
8 mmrain in the month
25 °Csea
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.

Marmaris's temperatures are measured 49 km from the centre, at Dalaman.

Marmaris 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. Marmaris: 2000-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dalaman (48.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazMarmaris
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniTurkish
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Turkish Lira (TRY)
SocketsAC50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+3
Emergency number911112
Elevation3,640 m7 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsDalaman International Airport (DLM)49 km from centre61 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazMarmaris
City population755,73297,818
People per km²1,601111
Museums within 10 km211
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.