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Titanic Belfast, Belfast
BelfastTitanic Belfast
São Paulo Cathedral, Sao Paulo
Sao PauloSão Paulo Cathedral

Photos: Belfast by Nico Kaiser, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Sao Paulo by Webysther Nunes, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Belfast or Sao Paulo?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Belfast for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Belfast’s own page.

Choose Sao Paulo for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Sao Paulo’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Belfast 20, Sao Paulo 42: Sao Paulo leads by 22 points.
Food & drink. Belfast 50, Sao Paulo 84: Sao Paulo leads by 34 points.
Culture & sights. Belfast 55, Sao Paulo 60: Sao Paulo leads by 5 points.
Nightlife. Belfast 50, Sao Paulo 86: Sao Paulo leads by 36 points.
Nature & outdoors. Belfast 74, Sao Paulo 48: Belfast leads by 26 points.
Day trips. Belfast 66, Sao Paulo 47: Belfast leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Belfast 58, Sao Paulo 52: Belfast leads by 6 points.
Getting around. Belfast 62, Sao Paulo 44: Belfast leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Belfast 45, Sao Paulo 70: Sao Paulo leads by 25 points.
Affordability. Belfast 48, Sao Paulo 62: Sao Paulo leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Belfast 55, Sao Paulo 76: Sao Paulo leads by 21 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Belfast and Sao Paulo are level on 25.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Belfast and Sao Paulo.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Belfast
51match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
Best match
58match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Belfast in July

19 °Cdaytime high
12 °Cnight-time low
74 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
12 °Csea
17 hdaylight a day

Sao Paulo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
53 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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BelfastSao Paulo

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Belfast: 1991-2020 normals, Belfast / Aldergrove Airport (19.4 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureBelfastSao Paulo
Official languageEnglishPortuguese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112 or 999Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation3 m760 m
Main airportGeorge Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)4 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre104 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBelfastSao Paulo
City population345,00611,451,999
People per km²3,0007,519
Museums within 10 km890
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

Where else could you go?

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.