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La Paz
The tusks over Moi Avenue, Mombasa
MombasaThe tusks over Moi Avenue

Photos: Mombasa by Rob Oo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

La Paz or Mombasa?

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
  • getting around
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Mombasa for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Mombasa’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, Mombasa 82: Mombasa leads by 79 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Mombasa 60: Mombasa leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Mombasa 55: Mombasa leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Mombasa 46: Mombasa leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Mombasa 74: La Paz leads by 8 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Mombasa 45: Mombasa leads by 5 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Mombasa 45: Mombasa leads by 35 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Mombasa 30: La Paz leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Mombasa 35: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Mombasa 70: La Paz leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Mombasa 22: La Paz leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Mombasa 40: Mombasa leads by 28 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Mombasa.

Your match

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

La Paz
42match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

Mombasa
Best match
50match

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

Mombasa in July

28 °Cdaytime high
20 °Cnight-time low
63 mmrain in the month
26 °Csea
12 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.

Mombasa 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. Mombasa: 1991-2020 normals, Mombasa (5.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazMombasa
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniEnglish, Swahili
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Kenyan Shilling (KES)
SocketsAC50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+3
Emergency number911Police 112/999, ambulance 112/999, fire 112/999
Elevation3,640 m50 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsMoi International Airport (MBA)8 km from centre22 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazMombasa
City population755,7321,208,333
People per km²1,6014,100
Museums within 10 km210
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
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. 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.