VacationSelector

Faro or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Faro
47
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

FaroSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Faro leads by 61 points.61
FaroSao Paulo
Score610
Swim season months30
Beaches 10 km130
Coast distance0 km51 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 29 points.29
FaroSao Paulo
Score4473
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2551,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2227
Museums & heritage. Sao Paulo leads by 21 points.21
FaroSao Paulo
Score2243
Museums within 10 km982
Museums within 2 km of centre826
Share of museums within 2 km %8932
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 51 points.51
FaroSao Paulo
Score2172
Drinking venues within 4 km1431,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre123896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %8651
Nightclubs within 4 km8118
Nature & day trips. Faro leads by 6 points.6
FaroSao Paulo
Score5751
Protected land share 50 km %1126
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %4295
Park area within 2 km34 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 19 points.19
FaroSao Paulo
Score3655
Tourist attractions within 2 km1038
Park area within 2 km34 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 28 points.28
FaroSao Paulo
Score2250
Notable places within 2 km1468
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 7 points.7
FaroSao Paulo
Score7481
Price level global55.946.1
Daily budget€109
Year-round weather. Faro and Sao Paulo are level on 83.
FaroSao Paulo
Score8383
Monthly daytime high16.3 °C to 29 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall1 mm to 102 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months61
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
Faro
16
17
19
21
24
27
29
29
26
23
19
17
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Sea temperature, °C
Faro
17
16
16
17
18
20
21
22
21
21
19
17
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Faro
55
39
44
40
23
6
1
5
28
57
75
102
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Faro
10
11
12
13
14
15
14
14
13
11
10
10
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Faro
6
6
8
9
10
12
12
11
9
8
6
6
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. Faro: 1991-2020 normals, Faro / Aeroporto (2.8 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromFaroSao Paulo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 40 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 30 m
€126-204
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
1 h 20 m
€46-52
FAO · 3 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
2 h 50 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
3 h 0 m
€144-189
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
LisbonLIS
55 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
PortoOPO
1 h 15 m
€37-132
FAO · 3 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 15 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
3 h 0 m
€137-201
1 stop
FAO · 3 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MunichMUC
3 h 5 m
no fares
FAO · 3 km
12 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

MeasureFaroSao Paulo
Official languagePortuguesePortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCF230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation10 m760 m
Main airportFaro - Gago Coutinho International Airport (FAO)3 km from centre91 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

MeasureFaroSao Paulo
City population64,56011,451,999
People per km²3197,519
Museums within 10 km290
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre3459
Swim season, months above 21 °C3 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.