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La Paz
The Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket, Phuket
PhuketThe Big Buddha on the hill above Phuket

Photos: Phuket by Mussi Katz, CC0.

La Paz or Phuket?

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
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Phuket for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Phuket’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, Phuket 90: Phuket leads by 87 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Phuket 66: Phuket leads by 16 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Phuket 35: La Paz leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Phuket 72: Phuket leads by 34 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Phuket 80: La Paz leads by 2 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Phuket 45: Phuket leads by 5 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Phuket 65: Phuket leads by 55 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Phuket 22: La Paz leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Phuket 42: La Paz leads by 3 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Phuket 68: La Paz leads by 24 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Phuket 20: La Paz leads by 15 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Phuket 82: Phuket leads by 70 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Phuket.

Your match

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

La Paz
42match

Wins on prices and getting around with your weighting.

Phuket
Best match
57match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

Phuket in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
287 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 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.

Phuket's temperatures are measured 27 km from the centre, at Phuket Airport.

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. Phuket: 1991-2020 (rainfall 1961-1990) normals, Phuket Airport (26.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazPhuket
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniThai
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Baht (THB)
SocketsAC50 HzABCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+7
Emergency number911Police 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199
Elevation3,640 m19 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsPhuket International Airport (HKT)27 km from centre85 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days-

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazPhuket
City population755,73277,610
People per km²1,6016,468
Museums within 10 km212
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. 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.