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La Paz
The Arctic Cathedral, Tromso
TromsoThe Arctic Cathedral

Photos: Tromso by Moyan Brenn, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

La Paz or Tromso?

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
  • shopping
  • day trips

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

Choose Tromso for

  • families
  • wellness
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Tromso’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, Tromso 8: Tromso leads by 5 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Tromso 36: La Paz leads by 14 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Tromso 27: La Paz leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. La Paz and Tromso are level on 38.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Tromso 92: Tromso leads by 10 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Tromso 14: La Paz leads by 26 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Tromso 45: Tromso leads by 35 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Tromso 60: Tromso leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Tromso 15: La Paz leads by 30 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Tromso 11: La Paz leads by 81 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Tromso 32: La Paz leads by 3 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Tromso 38: Tromso leads by 26 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Tromso.

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 shopping with your weighting.

Tromso
35match

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
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Tromso in July

16 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
73 mmrain in the month
8 hsunshine a day
10 °Csea
24 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. Tromso: 1991-2020 normals, Tromso (0.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazTromso
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniNorwegian, Nynorsk, Bokmål, Sámi
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Norwegian Krone (NOK)
SocketsAC50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911Police 112, ambulance 113, fire 110
Elevation3,640 m20 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsTromsø Airport (TOS)4 km from centre49 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazTromso
City population755,73279,943
People per km²1,60132
Museums within 10 km218
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

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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. 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.