VacationSelector

Copenhagen or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Copenhagen
✓ Best match
63
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
56
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

CopenhagenSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Copenhagen leads by 54 points.54
CopenhagenSao Paulo
Score540
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km170
Coast distance1 km51 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Copenhagen and Sao Paulo are level on 73.
CopenhagenSao Paulo
Score7373
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,1831,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3727
Museums & heritage. Copenhagen leads by 32 points.32
CopenhagenSao Paulo
Score7543
Museums within 10 km8382
Museums within 2 km of centre5126
Share of museums within 2 km %6132
Unesco sites within 50 km50
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 5 points.5
CopenhagenSao Paulo
Score6772
Drinking venues within 4 km1,3841,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre806896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5851
Nightclubs within 4 km64118
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 1 points.1
CopenhagenSao Paulo
Score5051
Protected land share 50 km %526
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %3995
Park area within 2 km138 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Copenhagen leads by 16 points.16
CopenhagenSao Paulo
Score7155
Tourist attractions within 2 km5438
Park area within 2 km138 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Copenhagen leads by 24 points.24
CopenhagenSao Paulo
Score7450
Notable places within 2 km27368
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 29 points.29
CopenhagenSao Paulo
Score5281
Price level global87.846.1
Daily budget€214
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 28 points.28
CopenhagenSao Paulo
Score5583
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 22.7 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall28 mm to 74 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
Copenhagen
4
4
7
12
17
20
23
22
18
13
8
5
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Sea temperature, °C
Copenhagen
3
2
3
6
10
14
17
18
15
12
9
5
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Copenhagen
44
32
30
28
47
60
59
74
59
61
49
47
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Copenhagen
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
8
7
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Copenhagen
No sunshine record
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. Copenhagen: 1991-2020 normals, Koebenhavn / Landbohoejskolen (2.4 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromCopenhagenSao Paulo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 50 m
€55-95
CPH · 8 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€167-221
CPH · 8 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 55 m
€460-501
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 50 m
€70-135
CPH · 8 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
3 h 5 m
€122-160
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
3 h 0 m
€195-237
CPH · 8 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 0 m
€78-118
CPH · 8 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 45 m
€94-138
1 stop
CPH · 8 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
DohaDOH
6 h 5 m
no fares
CPH · 8 km
14 h 35 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 10 m
no fares
CPH · 8 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

MeasureCopenhagenSao Paulo
Official languageDanishPortuguese
CurrencyDanish Krone (DKK)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCEFK230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation14 m760 m
Main airportCopenhagen Kastrup Airport (CPH)8 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureCopenhagenSao Paulo
City population667,09911,451,999
People per km²7,3397,519
Museums within 10 km7290
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km50
Distinct cuisines in the centre8259
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.