La Paz
Nuestra Señora de La Paz
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About
La Paz, officially Nuestra Señora de La Paz is the seat of government of Bolivia. With 755,732 residents as of 2024, it is the third-most populous city in Bolivia. Its metropolitan area, which includes the neighboring city of El Alto, and other smaller towns, is the second most populous urban area in Bolivia, with a population of 2.2 million, after Santa Cruz de la Sierra with a population of 2.3 million.
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The next week in La Paz
7-day forecast from Open-Meteo. UV badges flag days when sun protection matters (3 and above is moderate; 8 and above is risk territory for unprotected fair skin within 30 minutes).
Today
Clear
17° / 3°
UV High
Sat
Clear
17° / -1°
UV High
Sun
Clear
18° / 0°
UV High
Mon
Overcast
17° / 2°
UV High
Tue
Clear
18° / 4°
UV High
Wed
Overcast
19° / 3°
UV High
Thu
In May 16
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Air quality
No monitoring station within 25 km.
Weather
19° / -6°
Typical high / low
0 mm rainfall this month
Daylight
11.4h
06:47 – 18:09local
Year-round climate
Monthly highs, lows, and rainfall (long-term averages, NASA POWER).
Airports near La Paz
1 commercial airport within 100 km. Closest is El Alto International Airport (LPB) at 6 km.
Getting around La Paz
Public-transit operators within 8 km of the city center. Click through to each operator’s site for routes, fares, and tickets.
Local transit operators
Operators and modes aggregated by TransitLand from individual transit-agency GTFS feeds. Route classifications (subway / tram / rail / bus / etc) come from each feed’s GTFS route_type codes.
Sister cities
Sources
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- Wikipedia →
Summary, canonical article, and some image fallbacks.
- Wikidata →
Population, area, image, coordinates, and linked identifiers where available.
- NASA POWER →
Monthly temperature and rainfall climatology.
- Open-Meteo historical weather →
1991-2020 temperature and precipitation cross-check for compact climate fields.
- Open-Elevation →
Coordinate-based elevation backfill.
- tz database →
Coordinate-based IANA timezone lookup.
- City flag source →
Public domain, No machine-readable author provided. Walden69 assumed (based on copyright claims)..
- Site credits →
Global source notes, map tiles, flags, licenses, and attribution policy.