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Shitennō-ji temple, Osaka
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Photos: Osaka by Sarmat Batagov, Pexels License.

La Paz or Osaka?

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 Osaka for

  • families
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Osaka’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, Osaka 34: Osaka leads by 31 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Osaka 91: Osaka leads by 41 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Osaka 63: Osaka leads by 11 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 42 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Osaka 58: La Paz leads by 24 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Osaka 97: Osaka leads by 57 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Osaka 88: Osaka leads by 78 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Osaka 90: Osaka leads by 45 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Osaka 80: Osaka leads by 35 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Osaka 60: La Paz leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 31 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Osaka 66: Osaka leads by 54 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Osaka.

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.

Osaka
Best match
73match

Wins on families and day trips 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

Osaka in July

32 °Cdaytime high
25 °Cnight-time low
175 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
25 °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. Osaka: 1991-2020 normals, Osaka (1.8 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazOsaka
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniJapanese
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Yen (JPY)
SocketsAC50 HzAB100 V, 50 and 60 Hz depending on the region
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+9
Emergency number911Police 110, fire 119
Elevation3,640 m20 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsKansai International Airport (KIX)38 km from centre62 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazOsaka
City population755,7322,751,862
People per km²1,60112,340
Museums within 10 km2144
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km16
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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.