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La Paz
The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
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La Paz or San Francisco?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose San Francisco for

  • families
  • live music and the arts
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on San Francisco’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, San Francisco 25: San Francisco leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, San Francisco 82: San Francisco leads by 32 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, San Francisco 68: San Francisco leads by 16 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, San Francisco 58: San Francisco leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, San Francisco 80: La Paz leads by 2 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, San Francisco 72: San Francisco leads by 32 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, San Francisco 66: San Francisco leads by 56 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, San Francisco 70: San Francisco leads by 25 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, San Francisco 58: San Francisco leads by 13 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, San Francisco 14: La Paz leads by 78 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, San Francisco 76: San Francisco leads by 41 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, San Francisco 42: San Francisco 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 San Francisco.

Your match

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

La Paz
42match

Wins on prices and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

San Francisco
Best match
59match

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 seasea
11 hdaylight a day

San Francisco in July

22 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
13 °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.

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. San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazSan Francisco
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, Guarani-
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAC50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation3,640 m16 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazSan Francisco
City population755,732873,965
People per km²1,6011,455
Museums within 10 km2151
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. 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.