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La Paz
The cathedral facade, Siena
SienaThe cathedral facade

Photos: Siena by Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Paz or Siena?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Siena for

  • day trips
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Siena’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, Siena 14: Siena leads by 11 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Siena 62: Siena leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Siena 78: Siena leads by 26 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Siena 27: La Paz leads by 11 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Siena 65: La Paz leads by 17 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Siena 94: Siena leads by 54 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Siena 38: Siena leads by 28 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Siena 60: Siena leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Siena 35: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Siena 42: La Paz leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Siena 36: Siena leads by 1 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Siena 55: Siena 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 Siena.

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.

Siena
Best match
51match

Wins on day trips 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
11 hdaylight a day

Siena in July

31 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
27 mmrain in the month
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.

Siena's temperatures are measured 45 km from the centre, at Arezzo.

Siena 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. Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazSiena
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniItalian
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAC50 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3,640 m322 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre46 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazSiena
City population755,73252,812
People per km²1,601446
Museums within 10 km2130
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km15

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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.