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Bordeaux or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Bordeaux
49
match

Wins on museums & heritage with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

BordeauxSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Bordeaux and Sao Paulo are level on 0.
BordeauxSao Paulo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km40
Coast distance18 km51 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxSao Paulo
Score6873
Restaurants within 2 km of centre9751,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3227
Museums & heritage. Bordeaux leads by 12 points.12
BordeauxSao Paulo
Score5543
Museums within 10 km3582
Museums within 2 km of centre1726
Share of museums within 2 km %4932
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 24 points.24
BordeauxSao Paulo
Score4872
Drinking venues within 4 km5461,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre427896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7851
Nightclubs within 4 km32118
Nature & day trips. Bordeaux and Sao Paulo are level on 51.
BordeauxSao Paulo
Score5151
Protected land share 50 km %3526
Landscape blanket share 50 km %3515
Land share of disc %8595
Park area within 2 km43 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 10 points.10
BordeauxSao Paulo
Score4555
Tourist attractions within 2 km2138
Park area within 2 km43 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 5 points.5
BordeauxSao Paulo
Score4550
Notable places within 2 km5168
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 19 points.19
BordeauxSao Paulo
Score6281
Price level global73.746.1
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 15 points.15
BordeauxSao Paulo
Score6883
Monthly daytime high10.5 °C to 27.6 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall47 mm to 114 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
Bordeaux
11
12
16
18
22
25
27
28
24
20
14
11
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Rainfall, mm
Bordeaux
87
67
63
76
71
71
47
57
81
83
114
107
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Bordeaux
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Bordeaux
3
4
6
6
7
8
8
8
7
5
3
3
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. Bordeaux: 1991-2020 normals, Bordeaux / Merignac (9.5 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBordeauxSao Paulo
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€114-148
BOD · 11 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 30 m
€46-73
BOD · 11 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 45 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
LisbonLIS
1 h 50 m
€98-125
BOD · 11 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
PortoOPO
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 10 m
€77-107
BOD · 11 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 35 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
no fares
BOD · 11 km
10 h 15 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

MeasureBordeauxSao Paulo
Official languageFrenchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation1 m760 m
Main airportBordeaux–Mérignac Airport (BOD)11 km from centre94 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBordeauxSao Paulo
City population267,99111,451,999
People per km²5,4257,519
Museums within 10 km1890
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre8159

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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.