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La Paz
Santo Domingo church behind agaves, Oaxaca
OaxacaSanto Domingo church behind agaves

Photos: Oaxaca by Öskr Rck, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

La Paz or Oaxaca?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices

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

Choose Oaxaca for

  • wellness
  • food and drink
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Oaxaca’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, Oaxaca 5: Oaxaca leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Oaxaca 84: Oaxaca leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Oaxaca 74: Oaxaca leads by 22 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Oaxaca 40: Oaxaca leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Oaxaca 62: La Paz leads by 20 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Oaxaca 65: Oaxaca leads by 25 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Oaxaca 40: Oaxaca leads by 30 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Oaxaca 55: Oaxaca leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Oaxaca 62: Oaxaca leads by 17 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Oaxaca 77: La Paz leads by 15 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Oaxaca 38: Oaxaca leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Oaxaca 50: Oaxaca leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Oaxaca.

Your match

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

La Paz
42match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and prices with your weighting.

Oaxaca
Best match
54match

Wins on wellness and food and drink 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

Oaxaca in July

28 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
80 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
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.

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. Oaxaca: 1961-1990 normals, Oaxaca, Oax. (1.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazOaxaca
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAC50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation3,640 m1,555 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsXoxocotlán International Airport (OAX)7 km from centre14 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazOaxaca
City population755,732258,913
People per km²1,6013,028
Museums within 10 km2110
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12

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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.