Weekly note
La Paz
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The numbers

Daily high36°C
Nightly low27°C
Feels like, afternoon39°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more2 · 33 mm
Humidity58%
Sunshine12.0 h/day
Daylight12.9 h/day
Days over 35°C22
Beach and sea8 of 31 days dry and 23–35 °C; sea 29 °C, warm
Crowds100 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at the Malecón, the waterfront, 11 km from the airport (LAP): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

August: quiet. Busiest from November to February; quietest from April to September.

La Paz in pictures

What to pack

  • Light, loose clothes: daily highs average 36°C.
  • Plan the middle of the day indoors: 22 days a month pass 35°C.
  • Sun protection: about 12 hours of sunshine a day.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type A and B plugs at 127 V. Drives on the right. The currency is the Peso. UK Foreign Office: avoid all but essential travel to parts. Everything for Mexico: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in La Paz: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

August elsewhere

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