VacationSelector

Atlanta or Rio de Janeiro?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Wins on places to eat with your weighting.

Rio de Janeiro
✓ Best match
69
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

AtlantaRio de Janeiro
Beaches & swimming. Rio de Janeiro leads by 100 points.100
AtlantaRio de Janeiro
Score0100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km061
Coast distance373 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Atlanta leads by 5 points.5
AtlantaRio de Janeiro
Score5954
Restaurants within 2 km of centre739804
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2316
Museums & heritage. Rio de Janeiro leads by 34 points.34
AtlantaRio de Janeiro
Score3569
Museums within 10 km41110
Museums within 2 km of centre1651
Share of museums within 2 km %3946
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Rio de Janeiro leads by 8 points.8
AtlantaRio de Janeiro
Score4957
Drinking venues within 4 km531818
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284509
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5362
Nightclubs within 4 km4650
Nature & day trips. Rio de Janeiro leads by 31 points.31
AtlantaRio de Janeiro
Score3162
Protected land share 50 km %121
Landscape blanket share 50 km %017
Land share of disc %10057
Park area within 2 km113 hectares113 hectares
Good for families. Rio de Janeiro leads by 27 points.27
AtlantaRio de Janeiro
Score3259
Tourist attractions within 2 km230
Park area within 2 km113 hectares113 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Rio de Janeiro leads by 16 points.16
AtlantaRio de Janeiro
Score4056
Notable places within 2 km3998
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rio de Janeiro leads by 38 points.38
AtlantaRio de Janeiro
Score4381
Price level global10046.1
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Rio de Janeiro leads by 18 points.18
AtlantaRio de Janeiro
Score6785
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C24 °C to 28.4 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm42 mm to 232 mm
Dry months00
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Atlanta
12
14
19
23
27
30
32
32
29
23
18
13
Rio de Janeiro
28
28
28
27
25
24
24
25
25
26
26
27
Sea temperature, °C
Atlanta
No coastline within reach
Rio de Janeiro
25
25
25
25
24
23
22
21
21
22
23
24
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Rio de Janeiro
208
151
173
101
71
49
45
42
69
108
220
232
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Rio de Janeiro
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Atlanta: 1991-2020 normals, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta (29.2 km from centre). Rio de Janeiro: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaRio de Janeiro
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
9 h 45 m
€609-699
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
10 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
3 h 0 m
€212-267
GIG · 12 km
Sao PauloGRU, VCP, CGH, RTE
9 h 30 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 5 m
€113-134
GIG · 12 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 5 m
€69-120
ATL · 14 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
2 h 5 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
2 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
10 h 10 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
SantiagoSCL
9 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
4 h 5 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
8 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
11 h 35 m
€996-1109
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
2 h 35 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
1 h 50 m
€63-107
ATL · 14 km
8 h 35 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureAtlantaRio de Janeiro
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation225 m31 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaRio de Janeiro
City population498,7156,211,223
People per km²1,4334,930
Museums within 10 km2770
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre5627
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.