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A cable car over the brick-red houses, La Paz
La PazA cable car over the brick-red houses
The coloured houses stepping down to the sea, Positano
PositanoThe coloured houses stepping down to the sea

Photos: La Paz by Arabsalam, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Positano by Bernard Gagnon, CC BY 4.0, cropped.

La Paz or Positano?

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 Positano for

  • beaches
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Positano’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, Positano 77: Positano leads by 74 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Positano 40: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Positano 22: La Paz leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Positano 22: La Paz leads by 16 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Positano 80: La Paz leads by 2 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Positano 88: Positano leads by 48 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Positano 28: Positano leads by 18 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Positano 35: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz and Positano are level on 45.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Positano 10: La Paz leads by 82 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Positano 15: La Paz leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Positano 45: Positano leads by 33 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Positano.

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
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Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Positano
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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 recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Positano in July

29 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
25 °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.

Positano's temperatures are measured 25 km from the centre, at Capri.

Positano 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.

Positano's sunshine is measured 59 km from the centre, at Grazzanise.

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. Positano: 2005-2025 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Capri (25.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazPositano
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 m142 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)33 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazPositano
City population755,7323,729
People per km²1,601429
Museums within 10 km2110
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15
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. 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.