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La Paz
The red cable car above Wellington, Wellington
WellingtonThe red cable car above Wellington

Photos: Wellington by lumoplank, CC0.

La Paz or Wellington?

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
  • nature and the outdoors

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

Choose Wellington for

  • families
  • beaches
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Wellington’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, Wellington 33: Wellington leads by 30 points.
Food & drink. La Paz 50, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 12 points.
Culture & sights. La Paz 52, Wellington 44: La Paz leads by 8 points.
Nightlife. La Paz 38, Wellington 45: Wellington leads by 7 points.
Nature & outdoors. La Paz 82, Wellington 78: La Paz leads by 4 points.
Day trips. La Paz and Wellington are level on 40.
Good for families. La Paz 10, Wellington 62: Wellington leads by 52 points.
Getting around. La Paz 45, Wellington 68: Wellington leads by 23 points.
Shopping & style. La Paz 45, Wellington 42: La Paz leads by 3 points.
Affordability. La Paz 92, Wellington 33: La Paz leads by 59 points.
Live music & performing arts. La Paz 35, Wellington 56: Wellington leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. La Paz 12, Wellington 30: Wellington leads by 18 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: La Paz and Wellington.

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.

Wellington
Best match
49match

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

Wellington in July

12 °Cdaytime high
7 °Cnight-time low
111 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
10 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.

Wellington's sunshine is measured 47 km from the centre, at Paraparaumu Aerodrome.

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. Wellington: 1961-1990 (sunshine 1991-2020) normals, Wellington Aerodrome Aws (5.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLa PazWellington
Official languageSpanish, Aymara, Quechua, GuaraniEnglish, New Zealand Sign Language, Māori
CurrencyBoliviano (BOB)New Zealand Dollar (NZD)
SocketsAC50 HzI230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-4UTC+12, UTC+13 in summer
Emergency number911111
Elevation3,640 m0 m
Main airportEl Alto International Airport (LPB)6 km from centre12 non-stop destinationsWellington International Airport (WLG)5 km from centre20 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days12 days

By the numbers

MeasureLa PazWellington
City population755,732216,200
People per km²1,601487
Museums within 10 km2112
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.