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La Paz
Brooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan, New York
New YorkBrooklyn Bridge and Lower Manhattan

Photos: New York by Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

La Paz or New York?

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 New York for

  • live music and the arts
  • families
  • nightlife

What lies behind each score is written up on New York’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, New York 50: New York leads by 47 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, New York 92: New York leads by 42 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, New York 89: New York leads by 37 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, New York 97: New York leads by 59 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, New York 55: La Paz leads by 27 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, New York 68: New York leads by 28 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, New York 70: New York leads by 60 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, New York 82: New York leads by 37 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, New York 97: New York leads by 52 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, New York 12: La Paz leads by 80 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, New York 99: New York leads by 64 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, New York 42: New York 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 New York.

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.

New York
Best match
71match

Wins on live music and the arts 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 seasea
11 hdaylight a day

New York in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
107 mmrain in the month
22 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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La PazNew York

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. New York: 1991-2020 normals, LaGuardia Airport (12.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazNew York
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, Guarani-
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAC50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-5, UTC-4 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation3,640 m25 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsJohn F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)21 km from centre189 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazNew York
City population755,7328,804,190
People per km²1,6017,256
Museums within 10 km21157
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 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. 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.