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La Paz
The British Columbia Parliament Buildings, Victoria
VictoriaThe British Columbia Parliament Buildings

Photos: Victoria by Guilice, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.

La Paz or Victoria?

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
  • nightlife

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

Choose Victoria for

  • families
  • wellness
  • beaches

What lies behind each score is written up on Victoria’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, Victoria 28: Victoria leads by 25 points.
Food & drink. La Paz and Victoria are level on 50.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Victoria 42: La Paz leads by 10 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Victoria 30: La Paz leads by 8 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Victoria 77: La Paz leads by 5 points.
Day trips. La Paz 40, Victoria 54: Victoria leads by 14 points.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Victoria 62: Victoria leads by 52 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Victoria 60: Victoria leads by 15 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Victoria 40: La Paz leads by 5 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Victoria 34: La Paz leads by 58 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Victoria 40: Victoria leads by 5 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Victoria 48: Victoria 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 Victoria.

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.

Victoria
Best match
47match

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

Victoria in July

21 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
11 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
16 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.

Victoria's sunshine is measured 87 km from the centre, at Vancouver International Airport.

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. Victoria: 1991-2020 normals, Victoria Gonzales CS (3.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazVictoria
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 m23 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsVictoria International Airport (YYJ)25 km from centre16 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazVictoria
City population755,73291,867
People per km²1,6014,711
Museums within 10 km216
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.