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Atlanta or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Atlanta
40
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Sao Paulo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife with your weighting.

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Scoreboard

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

AtlantaSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Atlanta and Sao Paulo are level on 0.
AtlantaSao Paulo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance373 km51 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 14 points.14
AtlantaSao Paulo
Score5973
Restaurants within 2 km of centre7391,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2327
Museums & heritage. Sao Paulo leads by 8 points.8
AtlantaSao Paulo
Score3543
Museums within 10 km4182
Museums within 2 km of centre1626
Share of museums within 2 km %3932
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 23 points.23
AtlantaSao Paulo
Score4972
Drinking venues within 4 km5311,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre284896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5351
Nightclubs within 4 km46118
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 20 points.20
AtlantaSao Paulo
Score3151
Protected land share 50 km %126
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km113 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 23 points.23
AtlantaSao Paulo
Score3255
Tourist attractions within 2 km238
Park area within 2 km113 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 10 points.10
AtlantaSao Paulo
Score4050
Notable places within 2 km3968
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 38 points.38
AtlantaSao Paulo
Score4381
Price level global10046.1
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 16 points.16
AtlantaSao Paulo
Score6783
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 32 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall80 mm to 121 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months01
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
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Rainfall, mm
Atlanta
116
116
119
99
90
117
121
109
97
80
102
116
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Atlanta
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Atlanta
No sunshine record
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5

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). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromAtlantaSao Paulo
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
2 h 5 m
€152-200
ATL · 14 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
1 h 40 m
€84-125
ATL · 14 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
1 h 50 m
€161-221
ATL · 14 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
Rio de JaneiroGIG, SDU, RRJ
9 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
1 h 5 m
€190-227
GRU · 21 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
2 h 0 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
4 h 20 m
€165-240
1 stop
ATL · 14 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
2 h 5 m
€69-120
ATL · 14 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
10 h 10 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
2 h 40 m
€281-355
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
8 h 50 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
JohannesburgJNB, HLA
16 h 40 m
no fares
ATL · 14 km
9 h 25 m
€445-559
GRU · 21 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

MeasureAtlantaSao Paulo
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 m760 m
Main airportHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)14 km from centre238 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureAtlantaSao Paulo
City population498,71511,451,999
People per km²1,4337,519
Museums within 10 km2790
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre5659

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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. 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.