VacationSelector

Dubrovnik or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Dubrovnik
44
match

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

Sao Paulo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

DubrovnikSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Dubrovnik leads by 77 points.77
DubrovnikSao Paulo
Score770
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km430
Coast distance0 km51 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 35 points.35
DubrovnikSao Paulo
Score3873
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2061,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1827
Museums & heritage. Dubrovnik leads by 6 points.6
DubrovnikSao Paulo
Score4943
Museums within 10 km1882
Museums within 2 km of centre1726
Share of museums within 2 km %9432
Unesco sites within 50 km30
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 52 points.52
DubrovnikSao Paulo
Score2072
Drinking venues within 4 km1281,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre110896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8651
Nightclubs within 4 km13118
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 46 points.46
DubrovnikSao Paulo
Score551
Protected land share 50 km %426
Landscape blanket share 50 km %415
Land share of disc %5195
Park area within 2 km6 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 34 points.34
DubrovnikSao Paulo
Score2155
Tourist attractions within 2 km1238
Park area within 2 km6 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 6 points.6
DubrovnikSao Paulo
Score4450
Notable places within 2 km4868
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 1 points.1
DubrovnikSao Paulo
Score8081
Price level global48.546.1
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 18 points.18
DubrovnikSao Paulo
Score6583
Monthly daytime high11 °C to 29.1 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall54 mm to 198 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
Dubrovnik
11
12
14
18
22
26
29
29
25
21
17
13
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Sea temperature, °C
Dubrovnik
14
14
14
15
19
23
25
26
24
21
19
16
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Dubrovnik
141
121
112
127
90
71
54
62
143
145
192
198
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Dubrovnik
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Dubrovnik
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
6
4
4
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. Dubrovnik: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Dubrovnik / Cilipi (15.3 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromDubrovnikSao Paulo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 20 m
€63-108
DBV · 16 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
2 h 0 m
€181-222
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 15 m
€55-130
DBV · 16 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
MunichMUC
1 h 40 m
€240-268
DBV · 16 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
2 h 25 m
€182-228
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
no fares
DBV · 16 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
1 h 40 m
€255-303
1 stop
DBV · 16 km
13 h 5 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 2026-09, 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

MeasureDubrovnikSao Paulo
Official languageCroatianPortuguese
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
Elevation10 m760 m
Main airportDubrovnik Ruđer Bošković Airport (DBV)16 km from centre74 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

MeasureDubrovnikSao Paulo
City population41,56211,451,999
People per km²7,519
Museums within 10 km790
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km30
Distinct cuisines in the centre3259
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 months

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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). 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.