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A cable car over the brick-red houses, La Paz
La PazA cable car over the brick-red houses
The top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain, Vail
VailThe top of the Mountaintop Express lift on Vail Mountain

Photos: La Paz by Arabsalam, CC BY 4.0, cropped; Vail by DReifGalaxyM31, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

La Paz or Vail?

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
  • food and drink

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

Choose Vail for

  • families
  • wellness
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Vail’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, Vail 5: Vail leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Vail 35: La Paz leads by 15 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Vail 10: La Paz leads by 42 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Vail 30: La Paz leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Vail 92: Vail leads by 10 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Vail 45: Vail leads by 5 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Vail 55: Vail leads by 45 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Vail 62: Vail leads by 17 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Vail 35: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Vail 5: La Paz leads by 87 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Vail 42: Vail leads by 7 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Vail 48: Vail leads by 36 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Vail.

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.

Vail
39match

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

Vail in July

29 °Cdaytime high
9 °Cnight-time low
35 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.

Vail's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Kremmling.

Vail's station stands 186 m below the city centre, so the centre is likely a little cooler than the figures say.

Vail 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. Vail: 2006-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Kremmling (46.5 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazVail
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 m2,445 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsEagle County Regional Airport (EGE)48 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazVail
City population755,7324,835
People per km²1,601400
Museums within 10 km211
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.