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La Paz
Flinders Street Station, Melbourne
MelbourneFlinders Street Station

Photos: Melbourne by Medelam, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Paz or Melbourne?

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 Melbourne for

  • families
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Melbourne’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, Melbourne 50: Melbourne leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 25 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Melbourne 57: Melbourne leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Melbourne 75: Melbourne leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Melbourne 70: La Paz leads by 12 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Melbourne 62: Melbourne leads by 22 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Melbourne 73: Melbourne leads by 63 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Melbourne 76: Melbourne leads by 31 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Melbourne 70: Melbourne leads by 25 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Melbourne 31: La Paz leads by 61 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Melbourne 72: Melbourne leads by 37 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Melbourne 54: Melbourne leads by 42 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Melbourne.

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.

Melbourne
Best match
64match

Wins on families and beaches 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

Melbourne in July

14 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
46 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 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. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazMelbourne
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniEnglish
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAC50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number911000
Elevation3,640 m31 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre69 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazMelbourne
City population755,7325,350,705
People per km²1,601535
Museums within 10 km2143
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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.