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La Paz
The Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat
MuscatThe Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque

Photos: Muscat by Alli Khalil, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

La Paz or Muscat?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Muscat for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Muscat’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, Muscat 72: Muscat leads by 69 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Muscat 44: La Paz leads by 6 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Muscat 55: Muscat leads by 3 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Muscat 14: La Paz leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Muscat 70: La Paz leads by 12 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Muscat 62: Muscat leads by 22 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Muscat 52: Muscat leads by 42 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Muscat 20: La Paz leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Muscat 42: La Paz leads by 3 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Muscat 45: La Paz leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Muscat 40: Muscat leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Muscat 55: Muscat leads by 43 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Muscat.

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.

Muscat
Best match
48match

Wins on beaches 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
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Muscat in July

33 °Cdaytime high
30 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
31 °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.

Muscat's sunshine is measured 32 km from the centre, at Seeb, International Airport.

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. Muscat: 1991-2020 normals, Qaboos Port (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazMuscat
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniArabic
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Rial Omani (OMR)
SocketsAC50 HzCG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+4
Emergency number911968
Elevation3,640 m69 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsMuscat International Airport (MCT)31 km from centre83 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazMuscat
City population755,7321,421,409
People per km²1,601406
Museums within 10 km2110
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. 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.