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La Paz
A lifeguard stand on South Beach, Miami
MiamiA lifeguard stand on South Beach

Photos: Miami by Radomianin, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Paz or Miami?

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
  • getting around

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

Choose Miami for

  • beaches
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on Miami’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, Miami 90: Miami leads by 87 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Miami 72: Miami leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Miami 57: Miami leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Miami 82: Miami leads by 44 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Miami 64: La Paz leads by 18 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Miami 42: Miami leads by 2 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Miami 64: Miami leads by 54 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Miami 35: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Miami 71: Miami leads by 26 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Miami 27: La Paz leads by 65 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Miami 55: Miami leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Miami 44: Miami leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Miami.

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.

Miami
Best match
59match

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

Miami in July

33 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
186 mmrain in the month
29 °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.

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. Miami: 1991-2020 normals, Miami International Airport (10 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazMiami
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, Guarani-
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAC50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation3,640 m2 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsMiami International Airport (MIA)7 km from centre198 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazMiami
City population755,732442,241
People per km²1,6013,046
Museums within 10 km2117
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-12 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. 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.