VacationSelector

Bucharest or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Bucharest
55
match

Wins on good for families and sights concentration with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
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.

BucharestSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Bucharest and Sao Paulo are level on 0.
BucharestSao Paulo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance198 km51 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 6 points.6
BucharestSao Paulo
Score6773
Restaurants within 2 km of centre6671,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4127
Museums & heritage. Bucharest leads by 6 points.6
BucharestSao Paulo
Score4943
Museums within 10 km7382
Museums within 2 km of centre4026
Share of museums within 2 km %5532
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 10 points.10
BucharestSao Paulo
Score6272
Drinking venues within 4 km1,0171,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre541896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5351
Nightclubs within 4 km80118
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 15 points.15
BucharestSao Paulo
Score3651
Protected land share 50 km %426
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km133 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Bucharest leads by 13 points.13
BucharestSao Paulo
Score6855
Tourist attractions within 2 km4538
Park area within 2 km133 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Bucharest leads by 11 points.11
BucharestSao Paulo
Score6150
Notable places within 2 km13068
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Bucharest leads by 4 points.4
BucharestSao Paulo
Score8581
Price level global40.946.1
Daily budget€99
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 20 points.20
BucharestSao Paulo
Score6383
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 30.5 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall33 mm to 82 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months11
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
Bucharest
3
6
12
19
24
28
30
31
25
18
11
4
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Rainfall, mm
Bucharest
40
33
42
49
71
82
68
48
62
59
44
47
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Bucharest
9
10
12
13
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
Bucharest
2
4
5
6
8
9
10
9
7
5
3
2
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. Bucharest: 1991-2020 normals, Bucuresti / Imh (10 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromBucharestSao Paulo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
3 h 10 m
€72-175
OTP · 18 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 50 m
€118-127
OTP · 18 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 10 m
€121-131
OTP · 18 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
3 h 35 m
€109-143
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 15 m
€45-61
OTP · 18 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
2 h 0 m
€79-110
OTP · 18 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 45 m
€198-212
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 45 m
€82-113
OTP · 18 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 20 m
€123-173
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€669-837
1 stop
OTP · 18 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
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

MeasureBucharestSao Paulo
Official languageRomanianPortuguese
CurrencyRomanian Leu (RON)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+2, UTC+3 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation70 m760 m
Main airportBucharest Henri Coandă International Airport (OTP)18 km from centre123 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureBucharestSao Paulo
City population1,716,96111,451,999
People per km²7,5977,519
Museums within 10 km4190
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre6859

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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). 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.