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La Paz
Place d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica, Montreal
MontrealPlace d'Armes and Notre-Dame Basilica

Photos: Montreal by Arild Vågen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Paz or Montreal?

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 Montreal for

  • families
  • wellness
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Montreal’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, Montreal 25: Montreal leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Montreal 78: Montreal leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Montreal 75: Montreal leads by 37 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Montreal 66: La Paz leads by 16 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Montreal 55: Montreal leads by 15 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Montreal 68: Montreal leads by 58 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Montreal 72: Montreal leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Montreal 60: Montreal leads by 15 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Montreal 45: La Paz leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Montreal 76: Montreal leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Montreal 57: Montreal leads by 45 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Montreal.

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.

Montreal
Best match
61match

Wins on families and wellness 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

Montreal in July

27 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
98 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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La PazMontreal

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. Montreal: 1991-2020 normals, Montreal McTavish (3.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazMontreal
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniFrench, English
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAC50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation3,640 m31 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)16 km from centre166 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazMontreal
City population755,7321,895,211
People per km²1,6013,806
Museums within 10 km2137
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

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.