VacationSelector

Bangkok or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Bangkok
✓ Best match
62
match

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

Sao Paulo
56
match

Wins on year-round weather and sights concentration with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

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

BangkokSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Bangkok leads by 40 points.40
BangkokSao Paulo
Score400
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance23 km51 km
Water distance23 km
Places to eat. Bangkok leads by 10 points.10
BangkokSao Paulo
Score8373
Restaurants within 2 km of centre3,9571,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2627
Museums & heritage. Bangkok leads by 3 points.3
BangkokSao Paulo
Score4643
Museums within 10 km10382
Museums within 2 km of centre3026
Share of museums within 2 km %2932
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Bangkok leads by 11 points.11
BangkokSao Paulo
Score8372
Drinking venues within 4 km3,3831,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,396896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4151
Nightclubs within 4 km72118
Nature & day trips. Bangkok and Sao Paulo are level on 51.
BangkokSao Paulo
Score5151
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %8395
Park area within 2 km42 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Bangkok leads by 2 points.2
BangkokSao Paulo
Score5755
Tourist attractions within 2 km3138
Park area within 2 km42 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 2 points.2
BangkokSao Paulo
Score4850
Notable places within 2 km6268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bangkok leads by 12 points.12
BangkokSao Paulo
Score9381
Price level global29.746.1
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 27 points.27
BangkokSao Paulo
Score5683
Monthly daytime high32.4 °C to 35.8 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall7 mm to 331 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months31
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
Bangkok
33
34
35
36
35
34
34
33
33
33
33
32
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Sea temperature, °C
Bangkok
27
28
29
30
31
30
30
30
29
29
29
28
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Bangkok
18
22
43
92
221
187
184
227
331
276
42
7
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Bangkok
11
12
12
12
13
13
13
13
12
12
12
11
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Bangkok
8
8
8
8
7
5
5
4
4
5
7
8
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. Bangkok: 1991-2020 normals, Bangkok (5.7 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBangkokSao Paulo
BeijingPEK, PKX
4 h 35 m
€178-179
BKK · 26 km
21 h 20 m
€1,139-1567
2 stops
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
12 h 40 m
no fares
BKK · 26 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 55 m
€438-523
BKK · 26 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 25 m
€409-425
DMK · 21 km
15 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
16 h 20 m
€646-679
1 stop
BKK · 26 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
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 2026-08 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

MeasureBangkokSao Paulo
Official languageThaiPortuguese
CurrencyBaht (THB)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation2 m760 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)26 km from centre142 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBangkokSao Paulo
City population5,676,64811,451,999
People per km²3,6197,519
Museums within 10 km5990
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre9159
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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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.