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La Paz
The opera house on Place de la Comédie, Montpellier
MontpellierThe opera house on Place de la Comédie

Photos: Montpellier by Peter, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

La Paz or Montpellier?

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 Montpellier for

  • beaches
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Montpellier’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, Montpellier 64: Montpellier leads by 61 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Montpellier 64: Montpellier leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Montpellier 60: Montpellier leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Montpellier 56: Montpellier leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Montpellier 72: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Montpellier 85: Montpellier leads by 45 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Montpellier 62: Montpellier leads by 52 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Montpellier 74: Montpellier leads by 29 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Montpellier 47: Montpellier leads by 2 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Montpellier 50: La Paz leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Montpellier 63: Montpellier leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Montpellier 42: Montpellier 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 Montpellier.

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.

Montpellier
Best match
62match

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

Montpellier in July

30 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
17 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
21 °Csea
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.

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. Montpellier: 1991-2020 normals, Montpellier (7.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazMontpellier
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniFrench
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAC50 HzCE230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3,640 m7 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsMontpellier-Méditerranée Airport (MPL)8 km from centre41 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazMontpellier
City population755,732310,240
People per km²1,6015,452
Museums within 10 km2114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-2 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. 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.