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La Paz
The Great Mosque with the mountains behind, Tirana
TiranaThe Great Mosque with the mountains behind

Photos: Tirana by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Paz or Tirana?

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 Tirana for

  • beaches
  • families
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Tirana’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, Tirana 46: Tirana leads by 43 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Tirana 57: Tirana leads by 7 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Tirana 42: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Tirana 58: Tirana leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Tirana 62: La Paz leads by 20 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Tirana 64: Tirana leads by 24 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Tirana 40: Tirana leads by 30 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Tirana 54: Tirana leads by 9 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Tirana 32: La Paz leads by 13 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Tirana 76: La Paz leads by 16 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Tirana 32: La Paz leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Tirana 27: Tirana 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 Tirana.

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.

Tirana
Best match
49match

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

Tirana in July

31 °Cdaytime high
17 °Cnight-time low
43 mmrain in the month
12 hsunshine a day
24 °Csea
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.

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. Tirana: 1961-1990 normals, Tirana (3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazTirana
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniAlbanian
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Lek (ALL)
SocketsAC50 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation3,640 m110 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsTirana International Airport Mother Teresa (TIA)13 km from centre121 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazTirana
City population755,732389,323
People per km²1,6019,314
Museums within 10 km2111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-5 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. 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.