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La Paz
The lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park, Paphos
PaphosThe lighthouse in the Paphos Archaeological Park

Photos: Paphos by Nikodem Nijaki, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

La Paz or Paphos?

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
  • shopping
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Paphos for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Paphos’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, Paphos 76: Paphos leads by 73 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Paphos 45: La Paz leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Paphos 62: Paphos leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. La Paz and Paphos are level on 38.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Paphos 70: La Paz leads by 12 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Paphos 64: Paphos leads by 24 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Paphos 68: Paphos leads by 58 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Paphos 40: La Paz leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Paphos 25: La Paz leads by 20 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Paphos 52: La Paz leads by 40 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Paphos 22: La Paz leads by 13 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Paphos 42: Paphos leads by 30 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Paphos.

Your match

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

La Paz
42match

Wins on prices and shopping with your weighting.

Paphos
Best match
50match

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

Paphos in July

30 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
1 mmrain in the month
27 °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.

Paphos 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. Paphos: 1991-2020 normals, Paphos Airport (8.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazPaphos
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniTurkish, Greek, Modern Greek
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAC50 HzG240 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3,640 m72 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsPaphos International Airport (PFO)8 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days17 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazPaphos
City population755,73235,961
People per km²1,6011,987
Museums within 10 km214
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.