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A cable car over the brick-red houses, La Paz
La PazA cable car over the brick-red houses
The main beach with the green hills behind, Sayulita
SayulitaThe main beach with the green hills behind

Photos: La Paz by Arabsalam, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Sayulita by Luisalvaz, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Paz or Sayulita?

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 Sayulita for

  • beaches
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Sayulita’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, Sayulita 80: Sayulita leads by 77 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Sayulita 42: La Paz leads by 8 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Sayulita 7: La Paz leads by 45 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Sayulita 33: La Paz leads by 5 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Sayulita 72: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Sayulita 42: Sayulita leads by 2 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Sayulita 42: Sayulita leads by 32 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Sayulita 48: Sayulita leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Sayulita 33: La Paz leads by 12 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Sayulita 45: La Paz leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Sayulita 12: La Paz leads by 23 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Sayulita 58: Sayulita leads by 46 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Sayulita.

Your match

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

Too close to call, 1 point apart

La Paz
42match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Sayulita
43match

Wins on beaches and wellness 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

Sayulita in July

29 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
342 mmrain in the month
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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La PazSayulita

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.

Sayulita 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. Sayulita: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureLa PazSayulita
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniSpanish, Nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Mexican Peso (MXN)
SocketsAC50 HzAB127 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-6
Emergency number911911
Elevation3,640 m2 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsPuerto Vallarta International Airport (PVR)29 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days9 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazSayulita
City population755,7323,390
People per km²1,601-
Museums within 10 km210
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km11
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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.