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La Paz
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La Paz or Sedona?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Sedona for

  • wellness
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’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, Sedona 16: Sedona leads by 13 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Sedona 33: La Paz leads by 17 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Sedona 20: La Paz leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Sedona 8: La Paz leads by 30 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 11 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Sedona 55: Sedona leads by 15 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Sedona 42: Sedona leads by 32 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Sedona 22: La Paz leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Sedona 34: La Paz leads by 11 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Sedona 18: La Paz leads by 74 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Sedona 13: La Paz leads by 22 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 70 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Sedona.

Your match

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

La Paz
Best match
42match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

Wins on wellness 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
11 hdaylight a day

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
14 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.

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona 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. Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazSedona
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, Guarani-
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAC50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-7
Emergency number911911
Elevation3,640 m1,319 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazSedona
City population755,7329,684
People per km²1,601195
Museums within 10 km210
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10

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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. 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.