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A cable car over the brick-red houses, La Paz
La PazA cable car over the brick-red houses
Mountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola, Telluride
TellurideMountain Village under snow, seen from the gondola

Photos: La Paz by Arabsalam, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Telluride by Murray Foubister, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

La Paz or Telluride?

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
  • shopping

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

Choose Telluride for

  • families
  • wellness
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Telluride’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, Telluride 5: Telluride leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Telluride 38: La Paz leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Telluride 20: La Paz leads by 32 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Telluride 20: La Paz leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Telluride 93: Telluride leads by 11 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Telluride 30: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Telluride 45: Telluride leads by 35 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Telluride 66: Telluride leads by 21 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Telluride 25: La Paz leads by 20 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Telluride 7: La Paz leads by 85 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz and Telluride are level on 35.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Telluride 45: Telluride leads by 33 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Telluride.

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.

Telluride
36match

Wins on families 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

Telluride in July

23 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
58 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.

Telluride 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. Telluride: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Telluride / Lime (8.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazTelluride
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, Guarani-
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsAC50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-7, UTC-6 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation3,640 m2,667 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsMontrose Regional Airport (MTJ)64 km from centre11 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazTelluride
City population755,7322,607
People per km²1,6011,372
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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.