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A cable car over the brick-red houses, La Paz
La PazA cable car over the brick-red houses
Waterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor, Newport Beach
Newport BeachWaterfront houses on Harbor Island in Newport Harbor

Photos: La Paz by Arabsalam, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Newport Beach by Don Ramey Logan, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Paz or Newport Beach?

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
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

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

Choose Newport Beach for

  • families
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Newport Beach’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, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 67 points.
Food & drink. La Paz and Newport Beach are level on 50.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Newport Beach 20: La Paz leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Newport Beach 33: La Paz leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Newport Beach 66: La Paz leads by 16 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Newport Beach 70: Newport Beach leads by 30 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Newport Beach 80: Newport Beach leads by 70 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Newport Beach 20: La Paz leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Newport Beach 62: Newport Beach leads by 17 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Newport Beach 15: La Paz leads by 77 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Newport Beach 46: Newport Beach leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Newport Beach 44: Newport Beach leads by 32 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Newport Beach.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

La Paz
42match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Newport Beach
Best match
48match

Wins on families and beaches 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

Newport Beach in July

26 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
20 °Csea
14 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. Newport Beach: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1981-2010) normals, Santa Ana / Paularino (7.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazNewport Beach
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, Guarani-
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAC50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation3,640 m3 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsJohn Wayne Orange County International Airport (SNA)7 km from centre53 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazNewport Beach
City population755,73285,239
People per km²1,601622
Museums within 10 km214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.