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La Paz
Palacio Salvo under a blue sky, Montevideo
MontevideoPalacio Salvo under a blue sky

Photos: Montevideo by Andrés Franchi Ugart…, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

La Paz or Montevideo?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose Montevideo for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Montevideo’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, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 52 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 2 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Montevideo 50: Montevideo leads by 12 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Montevideo 34: La Paz leads by 48 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 15 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Montevideo 55: Montevideo leads by 45 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Montevideo 54: Montevideo leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Montevideo 36: La Paz leads by 9 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Montevideo 42: La Paz leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Montevideo 57: Montevideo leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Montevideo 38: Montevideo leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Montevideo.

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.

Montevideo
Best match
49match

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

Montevideo in July

15 °Cdaytime high
6 °Cnight-time low
99 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
11 °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. Montevideo: 1991-2020 normals, Carrasco (19.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazMontevideo
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, Guarani-
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Peso Uruguayo (UYU)
SocketsAC50 HzCFIL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-3
Emergency number911911
Elevation3,640 m41 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsCarrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)17 km from centre15 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazMontevideo
City population755,7321,302,954
People per km²1,6011,785
Museums within 10 km2136
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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.