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La Paz
A bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay, Montego Bay
Montego BayA bright beach on turquoise water at Montego Bay

Photos: Montego Bay by Dre Dawkcide, Pexels License.

La Paz or Montego Bay?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Montego Bay for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Montego Bay’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, Montego Bay 84: Montego Bay leads by 81 points.
Food & drink. La Paz and Montego Bay are level on 50.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Montego Bay 28: La Paz leads by 24 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Montego Bay 42: Montego Bay leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Montego Bay 65: La Paz leads by 17 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Montego Bay 50: Montego Bay leads by 10 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Montego Bay 48: Montego Bay leads by 38 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Montego Bay 20: La Paz leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Montego Bay 25: La Paz leads by 20 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Montego Bay 38: La Paz leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Montego Bay 32: La Paz leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Montego Bay 45: Montego Bay leads by 33 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Montego Bay.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

La Paz
42match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

Montego Bay
44match

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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Montego Bay in July

34 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
75 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 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. Montego Bay: 1991-2020 normals, Montego Bay / Sangster (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazMontego Bay
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsAC50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-5
Emergency number911Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation3,640 m19 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)4 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazMontego Bay
City population755,732123,994
People per km²1,601-
Museums within 10 km210
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.