VacationSelector

Berlin or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Berlin
✓ Best match
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
56
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

BerlinSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Berlin and Sao Paulo are level on 0.
BerlinSao Paulo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km170
Coast distance142 km51 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 3 points.3
BerlinSao Paulo
Score7073
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1171,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3327
Museums & heritage. Berlin leads by 36 points.36
BerlinSao Paulo
Score7943
Museums within 10 km20082
Museums within 2 km of centre8126
Share of museums within 2 km %4132
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Berlin leads by 4 points.4
BerlinSao Paulo
Score7672
Drinking venues within 4 km2,1141,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre719896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %3451
Nightclubs within 4 km135118
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 2 points.2
BerlinSao Paulo
Score4951
Protected land share 50 km %2026
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1615
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km141 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Berlin leads by 21 points.21
BerlinSao Paulo
Score7655
Tourist attractions within 2 km5438
Park area within 2 km141 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Berlin leads by 34 points.34
BerlinSao Paulo
Score8450
Notable places within 2 km48668
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 21 points.21
BerlinSao Paulo
Score6081
Price level global75.946.1
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 23 points.23
BerlinSao Paulo
Score6083
Monthly daytime high3.7 °C to 25 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall29 mm to 76 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
Berlin
4
6
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
8
4
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Rainfall, mm
Berlin
49
44
39
29
52
53
76
53
47
39
42
45
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Berlin
8
10
12
14
16
17
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Berlin
2
2
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Berlin: 1991-2020 normals, Berlin / Alexanderplatz (0.9 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBerlinSao Paulo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€65-126
BER · 19 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€137-154
BER · 19 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 40 m
€133-143
BER · 19 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€102-136
BER · 19 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
€158-204
1 stop
BER · 19 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
€178-321
BER · 19 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 25 m
€149-251
BER · 19 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 20 m
€159-242
BER · 19 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 19 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 19 km
21 h 20 m
€1,139-1567
2 stops
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

MeasureBerlinSao Paulo
Official languageGermanPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation34 m760 m
Main airportBerlin Brandenburg Airport (BER)19 km from centre161 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBerlinSao Paulo
City population3,782,20211,451,999
People per km²4,2447,519
Museums within 10 km15890
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8659

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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). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.