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A cable car over the brick-red houses, La Paz
La PazA cable car over the brick-red houses
The white beach below the high-rise hotels, Orange Beach
Orange BeachThe white beach below the high-rise hotels

Photos: La Paz by Arabsalam, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Orange Beach by WeaponizingArchitecture, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Paz or Orange 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 Orange Beach for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Orange 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, Orange Beach 86: Orange Beach leads by 83 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Orange Beach 40: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Orange Beach 7: La Paz leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Orange Beach 30: La Paz leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Orange Beach 60: La Paz leads by 22 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Orange Beach 50: Orange Beach leads by 10 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Orange Beach 75: Orange Beach leads by 65 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Orange Beach 15: La Paz leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Orange Beach 25: La Paz leads by 20 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Orange Beach 38: La Paz leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Orange Beach 32: La Paz leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Orange Beach 32: Orange Beach leads by 20 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Orange Beach.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

La Paz
42match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Orange Beach
41match

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 seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Orange Beach in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
200 mmrain in the month
29 °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. Orange Beach: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Gulf Shores / Bay Village Mobile Home Park (10.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazOrange Beach
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, Guarani-
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAC50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-6, UTC-5 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation3,640 m4 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsPensacola International Airport (PNS)41 km from centre27 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazOrange Beach
City population755,7328,095
People per km²1,601196
Museums within 10 km210
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-8 months

Where else could you go?

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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.