VacationSelector

Beijing or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Beijing
53
match

Wins on good for families and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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.

BeijingSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Beijing and Sao Paulo are level on 0.
BeijingSao Paulo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance145 km51 km
Water distance
Places to eatWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Museums & heritage. Beijing leads by 20 points.20
BeijingSao Paulo
Score6343
Museums within 10 km9582
Museums within 2 km of centre1526
Share of museums within 2 km %1632
Unesco sites within 50 km60
NightlifeWe cannot measure this for Beijing.
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 16 points.16
BeijingSao Paulo
Score3551
Protected land share 50 km %326
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km143 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Beijing leads by 22 points.22
BeijingSao Paulo
Score7755
Tourist attractions within 2 km4138
Park area within 2 km143 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km121
Sights concentration. Beijing and Sao Paulo are level on 50.
BeijingSao Paulo
Score5050
Notable places within 2 km6968
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 2 points.2
BeijingSao Paulo
Score7981
Price level global4946.1
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 17 points.17
BeijingSao Paulo
Score6683
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 31.8 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall3 mm to 163 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months81
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
Beijing
2
6
13
21
27
31
32
31
27
19
10
4
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Rainfall, mm
Beijing
3
6
9
23
38
74
163
112
56
27
14
3
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Beijing
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Beijing
6
6
7
8
9
7
6
7
7
7
6
6
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. Beijing: 1991-2020 normals, Beijing (11.1 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBeijingSao Paulo
MadridMAD
11 h 30 m
no fares
PEK · 25 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
DohaDOH
7 h 55 m
€595-787
3 stops
PKX · 45 km
14 h 35 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
9 h 0 m
€475-645
PEK · 25 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
13 h 5 m
€1,020-1172
2 stops
PEK · 25 km
10 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 2026-09 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

MeasureBeijingSao Paulo
Official languagePutonghuaPortuguese
CurrencyYuan Renminbi (CNY)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsACI220 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 110, ambulance 120, fire 119Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation43 m760 m
Main airportBeijing Capital International Airport (PEK)25 km from centre88 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year6 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBeijingSao Paulo
City population21,893,09511,451,999
People per km²1,3347,519
Museums within 10 km8390
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km60
Distinct cuisines in the centre2959

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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.