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La Paz
The Koutoubia Mosque from its gardens, Marrakech
MarrakechThe Koutoubia Mosque from its gardens

Photos: Marrakech by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

La Paz or Marrakech?

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
  • day trips

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

Choose Marrakech for

  • wellness
  • shopping
  • culture and sights

What lies behind each score is written up on Marrakech’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, Marrakech 7: Marrakech leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Marrakech 64: Marrakech leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Marrakech 76: Marrakech leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Marrakech 33: La Paz leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Marrakech 70: La Paz leads by 12 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Marrakech 28: La Paz leads by 12 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Marrakech 25: Marrakech leads by 15 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Marrakech 38: La Paz leads by 7 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Marrakech 72: Marrakech leads by 27 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Marrakech 72: La Paz leads by 20 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Marrakech 25: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Marrakech 75: Marrakech leads by 63 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Marrakech.

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.

Marrakech
Best match
49match

Wins on wellness and shopping 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

Marrakech in July

38 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
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. Marrakech: 1991-2020 normals, Marrakech (5.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazMarrakech
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniArabic, Standard Moroccan Tamazight
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Moroccan Dirham (MAD)
SocketsAC50 HzCE50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1
Emergency number911Police 19/112, ambulance 15, fire 15
Elevation3,640 m465 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsMarrakesh Menara Airport (RAK)6 km from centre113 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazMarrakech
City population755,7321,002,697
People per km²1,6014,360
Museums within 10 km2114
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. 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.