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A cable car over the brick-red houses, La Paz
La PazA cable car over the brick-red houses
The limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls, Ocho Rios
Ocho RiosThe limestone terraces of Dunn's River Falls

Photos: La Paz by Arabsalam, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Ocho Rios by Dr. Thomas Liptak, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Paz or Ocho Rios?

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 Ocho Rios for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Ocho Rios’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, Ocho Rios 78: Ocho Rios leads by 75 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Ocho Rios 42: La Paz leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Ocho Rios 16: La Paz leads by 36 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Ocho Rios 28: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Ocho Rios 72: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Ocho Rios 56: Ocho Rios leads by 16 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Ocho Rios 60: Ocho Rios leads by 50 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Ocho Rios 24: La Paz leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Ocho Rios 26: La Paz leads by 19 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Ocho Rios 42: La Paz leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Ocho Rios 14: La Paz leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Ocho Rios 50: Ocho Rios 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 Ocho Rios.

Your match

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

Too close to call, level with your weighting

La Paz
42match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Ocho Rios
42match

Wins on beaches 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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Ocho Rios in July

33 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
85 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
29 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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La PazOcho Rios

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.

Ocho Rios's temperatures are measured 62 km from the centre, at Kingston / Norman Manley.

Ocho Rios has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

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. Ocho Rios: 1991-2020 normals, Kingston / Norman Manley (61.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazOcho Rios
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniEnglish, Jamaican Patois
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Jamaican Dollar (JMD)
SocketsAC50 HzAB116 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-5
Emergency number911Police 110/112/119/911, ambulance 110, fire 110
Elevation3,640 m59 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsSangster International Airport (MBJ)86 km from centre48 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days10 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazOcho Rios
City population755,73216,671
People per km²1,601-
Museums within 10 km210
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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.