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A cable car over the brick-red houses, La Paz
La PazA cable car over the brick-red houses
Portofino and its bay from the hillside, Portofino
PortofinoPortofino and its bay from the hillside

Photos: La Paz by Arabsalam, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Portofino by Michal Osmenda, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

La Paz or Portofino?

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
  • live music and the arts

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

Choose Portofino for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Portofino’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, Portofino 60: Portofino leads by 57 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Portofino 36: La Paz leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Portofino 22: La Paz leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Portofino 14: La Paz leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Portofino 77: La Paz leads by 5 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Portofino 76: Portofino leads by 36 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Portofino 33: Portofino leads by 23 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Portofino 50: Portofino leads by 5 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Portofino 29: La Paz leads by 16 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Portofino 9: La Paz leads by 83 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Portofino 7: La Paz leads by 28 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Portofino 42: Portofino 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 Portofino.

Your match

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

La Paz
Best match
42match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Portofino
38match

Wins on beaches 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 seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Portofino in July

27 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
24 °Csea
15 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.

Portofino's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Genova / Sestri.

Portofino 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. Portofino: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (31 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazPortofino
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniItalian
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAC50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3,640 m20 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)32 km from centre25 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazPortofino
City population755,732355
People per km²1,601142
Museums within 10 km2114
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.