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La Paz
The Opera House from the water, Sydney
SydneyThe Opera House from the water

Photos: Sydney by Bernard Spragg, CC0.

La Paz or Sydney?

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

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

Choose Sydney for

  • beaches
  • families
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Sydney’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, Sydney 95: Sydney leads by 92 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Sydney 77: Sydney leads by 27 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Sydney 60: Sydney leads by 22 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Sydney 85: Sydney leads by 3 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Sydney 50: Sydney leads by 10 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 65 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Sydney 75: Sydney leads by 30 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Sydney 68: Sydney leads by 23 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Sydney 22: La Paz leads by 70 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Sydney 73: Sydney leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Sydney 55: Sydney 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 Sydney.

Your match

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

La Paz
42match

Wins on prices with your weighting.

Sydney
Best match
66match

Wins on beaches 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
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Sydney in July

18 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
70 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
19 °Csea
10 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. Sydney: 1991-2020 normals, Sydney Airport (3.7 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazSydney
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniEnglish
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Australian Dollar (AUD)
SocketsAC50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+10, UTC+11 in summer
Emergency number911000
Elevation3,640 m6 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsSydney Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD)9 km from centre99 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazSydney
City population755,7325,450,496
People per km²1,601449
Museums within 10 km2138
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km12
Swim season, months above 21 °C-6 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. 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.