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La Paz vs Castries

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Comparing La Paz change · Castries change

Bottom line

Castries is the warmer of the two — about 19°C on the annual average; Castries is the wetter, with 1386 mm more rain a year, and Castries the sunnier.

Warmer Castries 19°C on the year
Wetter Castries 1386 mm more a year
Sunnier Castries 10 pp less cloud
Colder winters La Paz 29°C colder nights

How the seasons compare

The differences between La Paz and Castries, in everyday terms.

Summers

Castries has far hotter summers

La Paz: Cool
Castries: Warm

Winters

Castries has far milder winters

La Paz: Cold
Castries: Stays warm

Rain & snow

Castries is much wetter

La Paz: Moderate rainfall
Castries: Very wet

Sky

Castries is sunnier

La Paz: Partly cloudy
Castries: Fairly sunny

Month-by-month charts

Temperature

Castries is the warmer of the two — about 19°C on the annual average.

-20°20°40° JanAprJulOct La PazCastries

Precipitation

Castries is the wetter — about 1386 mm more across the year.

PRECIPITATION (mm) 0150300 JanAprJulOct La PazCastries

Clear skies

Castries has the clearer skies — the higher line.

0%25%50%75%100% JanAprJulOct La PazCastries

Exact monthly numbers

Tap a metric to open its full table. Desktop shows all twelve months; on a phone each metric splits into Jan–Jun and Jul–Dec.

Avg high (°C) Castries runs higher most of the year
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
La Paz151515151515141516171716
Castries272727282828282929292827
Difference+12+11+12+12+13+14+14+13+13+12+11+11
Jan – JunJanFebMarAprMayJun
La Paz151515151515
Castries272727282828
Difference+12+11+12+12+13+14
Jul – DecJulAugSepOctNovDec
La Paz141516171716
Castries282929292827
Difference+14+13+13+12+11+11
Avg low (°C) Castries runs higher most of the year
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
La Paz4431-2-4-4-3-1124
Castries262525262727272828282726
Difference+21+21+22+25+29+31+31+31+29+26+25+23
Jan – JunJanFebMarAprMayJun
La Paz4431-2-4
Castries262525262727
Difference+21+21+22+25+29+31
Jul – DecJulAugSepOctNovDec
La Paz-4-3-1124
Castries272828282726
Difference+31+31+29+26+25+23
Precipitation (mm) Castries runs higher most of the year
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
La Paz12211474365841624375086
Castries113766690114134216291224246243149
Difference-8-38-8+53+109+125+213+275+200+210+193+63
Jan – JunJanFebMarAprMayJun
La Paz122114743658
Castries113766690114134
Difference-8-38-8+53+109+125
Jul – DecJulAugSepOctNovDec
La Paz41624375086
Castries216291224246243149
Difference+213+275+200+210+193+63
Cloud cover (%) Varies through the year
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
La Paz807971554138353846586476
Castries383942495259504651514641
Difference-41-40-29-6+11+21+14+9+5-7-18-35
Jan – JunJanFebMarAprMayJun
La Paz807971554138
Castries383942495259
Difference-41-40-29-6+11+21
Jul – DecJulAugSepOctNovDec
La Paz353846586476
Castries504651514641
Difference+14+9+5-7-18-35
Relative humidity (%) Varies through the year
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
La Paz798181787170686971727276
Castries767575767779797979797977
Difference-4-6-6-2+6+9+10+10+8+7+7+1
Jan – JunJanFebMarAprMayJun
La Paz798181787170
Castries767575767779
Difference-4-6-6-2+6+9
Jul – DecJulAugSepOctNovDec
La Paz686971727276
Castries797979797977
Difference+10+10+8+7+7+1

How both climates are changing

Both cities are warming. Each city has its own warming trend; see its trends page for the year-by-year detail. La Paz trends → · Castries trends →

La Paz is projected to shift from Cwc to Cwb by the 2071–2099 window (SSP2-4.5).

Methodology & sources

La Paz

Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 27 years of daily observations at EL Alto Intl, a weather station, about 5 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

Cloud, humidity, wind & sunshine — modelled estimates from NASA POWER, NASA's satellite-and-reanalysis climatology. This is the standard global source for atmospheric variables, which are not measured at most weather stations.

Castries

Temperature — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

Precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 10 years of daily observations at LE Lamentin, a weather station, about 66 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

Cloud, humidity, wind & sunshine — modelled estimates from NASA POWER, NASA's satellite-and-reanalysis climatology. This is the standard global source for atmospheric variables, which are not measured at most weather stations.

How we build these numbers →