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La Paz or Palm Springs?

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
  • getting around
  • food and drink

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

Choose Palm Springs for

  • wellness
  • families
  • live music and the arts

What lies behind each score is written up on Palm Springs’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, Palm Springs 7: Palm Springs leads by 4 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Palm Springs 40: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Palm Springs 42: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Palm Springs 36: La Paz leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Palm Springs 78: La Paz leads by 4 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Palm Springs 38: La Paz leads by 2 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Palm Springs 40: Palm Springs leads by 30 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Palm Springs 22: La Paz leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Palm Springs 44: La Paz leads by 1 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Palm Springs 32: La Paz leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Palm Springs 40: Palm Springs leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Palm Springs 80: Palm Springs leads by 68 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Palm Springs.

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 getting around with your weighting.

Palm Springs
42match

Wins on wellness 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
11 hdaylight a day

Palm Springs in July

42 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
5 mmrain in the month
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.

Palm Springs 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. Palm Springs: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Palm Springs (2.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazPalm Springs
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 m146 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsPalm Springs International Airport (PSP)2 km from centre29 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazPalm Springs
City population755,73244,575
People per km²1,601181
Museums within 10 km213
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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.