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La Paz
Palms on a white beach at Cap Cana, Punta Cana
Punta CanaPalms on a white beach at Cap Cana

Photos: Punta Cana by Mary Mark Ockerbloom, CC0.

La Paz or Punta Cana?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Punta Cana for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Punta Cana’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, Punta Cana 94: Punta Cana leads by 91 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Punta Cana 30: La Paz leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Punta Cana 8: La Paz leads by 44 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Punta Cana 40: Punta Cana leads by 2 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Punta Cana 52: La Paz leads by 30 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Punta Cana 35: La Paz leads by 5 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Punta Cana 68: Punta Cana leads by 58 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Punta Cana 15: La Paz leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Punta Cana 30: La Paz leads by 15 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Punta Cana 44: La Paz leads by 48 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Punta Cana 15: La Paz leads by 20 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Punta Cana 52: Punta Cana leads by 40 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Punta Cana.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 2 points apart

La Paz
42match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Punta Cana
40match

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

Punta Cana in July

32 °Cdaytime high
24 °Cnight-time low
96 mmrain in the month
28 °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.

Punta Cana 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. Punta Cana: 1993-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Punta Cana (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazPunta Cana
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniSpanish
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Dominican Peso (DOP)
SocketsAC50 HzAB110 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-4
Emergency number911911
Elevation3,640 m28 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsPunta Cana International Airport (PUJ)1 km from centre93 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazPunta Cana
City population755,732138,919
People per km²1,601292
Museums within 10 km210
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. Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.