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La Paz
The cathedral from Piazza del Duomo, Milan
MilanThe cathedral from Piazza del Duomo

Photos: Milan by Jiuguang Wang, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

La Paz or Milan?

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 Milan for

  • day trips
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Milan’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, Milan 20: Milan leads by 17 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Milan 78: Milan leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Milan 78: Milan leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Milan 66: Milan leads by 28 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Milan 65: La Paz leads by 17 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Milan 91: Milan leads by 51 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Milan 55: Milan leads by 45 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Milan 79: Milan leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Milan 92: Milan leads by 47 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Milan 33: La Paz leads by 59 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Milan 82: Milan leads by 47 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Milan 42: Milan leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Milan.

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.

Milan
Best match
65match

Wins on day trips 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

Milan in July

30 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
15 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.

Milan 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.

Milan's sunshine is measured 41 km from the centre, at Novara / Cameri.

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. Milan: 1991-2020 normals, Milano / Linate (8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazMilan
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniItalian
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAC50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3,640 m138 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsMilan Malpensa International Airport (MXP)40 km from centre208 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazMilan
City population755,7321,354,196
People per km²1,6017,453
Museums within 10 km2188
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km14

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.