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La Paz
Gastown, Vancouver
VancouverGastown

Photos: Vancouver by Xicotencatl, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

La Paz or Vancouver?

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

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

Choose Vancouver for

  • families
  • beaches
  • wellness

What lies behind each score is written up on Vancouver’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, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 22 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Vancouver 42: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Vancouver 42: Vancouver leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Vancouver 97: Vancouver leads by 15 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Vancouver 45: Vancouver leads by 5 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Vancouver 72: Vancouver leads by 62 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Vancouver 73: Vancouver leads by 28 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Vancouver 55: Vancouver leads by 10 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Vancouver 27: La Paz leads by 65 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Vancouver 52: Vancouver leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Vancouver 50: Vancouver leads by 38 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Vancouver.

Your match

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

La Paz
42match

Wins on prices and culture and sights with your weighting.

Vancouver
Best match
56match

Wins on families and beaches 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

Vancouver in July

23 °Cdaytime high
15 °Cnight-time low
42 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
16 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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La PazVancouver

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. Vancouver: 1991-2020 normals, Vancouver Harbour CS (4.4 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazVancouver
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniFrench, English
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)Canadian Dollar (CAD)
SocketsAC50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-4UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number911911
Elevation3,640 m2 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsVancouver International Airport (YVR)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazVancouver
City population755,732662,248
People per km²1,6015,759
Museums within 10 km2126
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. 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.