VacationSelector

Dresden or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Dresden
48
match

Wins on museums & heritage and good for families 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.

DresdenSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Dresden and Sao Paulo are level on 0.
DresdenSao Paulo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km220
Coast distance267 km51 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 12 points.12
DresdenSao Paulo
Score6173
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4221,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km4227
Museums & heritage. Dresden leads by 11 points.11
DresdenSao Paulo
Score5443
Museums within 10 km6682
Museums within 2 km of centre3426
Share of museums within 2 km %5232
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 30 points.30
DresdenSao Paulo
Score4272
Drinking venues within 4 km3591,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre265896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7451
Nightclubs within 4 km43118
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 12 points.12
DresdenSao Paulo
Score3951
Protected land share 50 km %1426
Landscape blanket share 50 km %915
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km80 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Dresden leads by 4 points.4
DresdenSao Paulo
Score5955
Tourist attractions within 2 km3238
Park area within 2 km80 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Dresden leads by 3 points.3
DresdenSao Paulo
Score5350
Notable places within 2 km8268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 21 points.21
DresdenSao Paulo
Score6081
Price level global75.946.1
Daily budget€163
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 21 points.21
DresdenSao Paulo
Score6283
Monthly daytime high4 °C to 26.2 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall31 mm to 83 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months41
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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J
A
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D
Daytime high, °C
Dresden
4
6
10
17
21
24
26
26
21
15
9
6
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Rainfall, mm
Dresden
46
31
36
36
64
72
80
83
55
49
40
45
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Dresden
9
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
Dresden
2
3
4
6
7
7
7
7
6
4
2
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. Dresden: 1991-2020 normals, Dresden-Strehlen (3.8 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDresdenSao Paulo
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 112 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 30 m
€163-247
PRG · 112 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 25 m
€57-79
PRG · 112 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 112 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 112 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€737
BER · 147 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 25 m
€118-136
PRG · 112 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 112 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 112 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 20 m
€718-820
2 stops
BER · 147 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

MeasureDresdenSao 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
Elevation126 m760 m
Main airportDresden Airport (DRS)10 km from centre12 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

MeasureDresdenSao Paulo
City population564,90411,451,999
People per km²1,7207,519
Museums within 10 km7090
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre7759

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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.