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La Paz
The old town below the fortress, Salzburg
SalzburgThe old town below the fortress

Photos: Salzburg by Leonhard Niederwimmer, Pexels License.

La Paz or Salzburg?

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
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Salzburg for

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Salzburg’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, Salzburg 35: Salzburg leads by 32 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Salzburg 45: La Paz leads by 5 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Salzburg 25: La Paz leads by 13 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Salzburg 86: Salzburg leads by 4 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 40 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Salzburg 65: Salzburg leads by 55 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Salzburg 72: Salzburg leads by 27 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Salzburg 48: Salzburg leads by 3 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Salzburg 32: La Paz leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Salzburg 80: Salzburg leads by 45 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Salzburg 55: Salzburg leads by 43 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Salzburg.

Your match

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

La Paz
42match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Salzburg
Best match
58match

Wins on families and live music and the arts 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
11 hdaylight a day

Salzburg in July

25 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
159 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
16 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.

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. Salzburg: 1991-2020 normals, Salzburg (3.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazSalzburg
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniGerman, Austrian Sign Language
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAC50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3,640 m424 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsSalzburg Airport (SZG)3 km from centre64 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazSalzburg
City population755,732155,021
People per km²1,6012,360
Museums within 10 km2138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km13

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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. 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.