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La Paz
The Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square, Skopje
SkopjeThe Warrior on a Horse, Macedonia Square

Photos: Skopje by George M. Groutas, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

La Paz or Skopje?

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

  • nature and the outdoors
  • prices
  • shopping

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

Choose Skopje for

  • families
  • day trips
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Skopje’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, Skopje 6: Skopje leads by 3 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Skopje 52: Skopje leads by 2 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Skopje 56: Skopje leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Skopje 42: Skopje leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Skopje 70: La Paz leads by 12 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Skopje 56: Skopje leads by 16 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Skopje 35: Skopje leads by 25 points.
Getting around. La Paz and Skopje are level on 45.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Skopje 40: La Paz leads by 5 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Skopje 80: La Paz leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Skopje 38: Skopje leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Skopje 27: Skopje leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Skopje.

Your match

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

La Paz
42match

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

Skopje
Best match
46match

Wins on families and day trips 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

Skopje in July

32 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
31 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
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.

Skopje 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.

Skopje's sunshine is measured 68 km from the centre, at Stip.

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. Skopje: 1991-2020 (sunshine 1961-1990) normals, Skopje-Petrovec (18.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazSkopje
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniAlbanian, Macedonian
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Denar (MKD)
SocketsAC50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3,640 m251 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsSkopje International Airport (SKP)16 km from centre52 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazSkopje
City population755,732422,540
People per km²1,601739
Museums within 10 km2117
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. 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.