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Florence and the Arno, Florence
FlorenceFlorence and the Arno
São Paulo Cathedral, Sao Paulo
Sao PauloSão Paulo Cathedral

Photos: Florence by Wolfgang Weiser, Pexels License; Sao Paulo by Webysther Nunes, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Florence or Sao Paulo?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Florence for

  • day trips
  • culture and sights
  • getting around

What lies behind each score is written up on Florence’s own page.

Choose Sao Paulo for

  • nightlife
  • beaches
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Sao Paulo’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Florence 14, Sao Paulo 42: Sao Paulo leads by 28 points.
Food & drink. Florence 74, Sao Paulo 84: Sao Paulo leads by 10 points.
Culture & sights. Florence 94, Sao Paulo 60: Florence leads by 34 points.
Nightlife. Florence 42, Sao Paulo 86: Sao Paulo leads by 44 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florence 58, Sao Paulo 48: Florence leads by 10 points.
Day trips. Florence 98, Sao Paulo 47: Florence leads by 51 points.
Good for families. Florence 45, Sao Paulo 52: Sao Paulo leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Florence 78, Sao Paulo 44: Florence leads by 34 points.
Shopping & style. Florence 72, Sao Paulo 70: Florence leads by 2 points.
Affordability. Florence 35, Sao Paulo 62: Sao Paulo leads by 27 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florence 58, Sao Paulo 76: Sao Paulo leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florence 42, Sao Paulo 25: Florence leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florence and Sao Paulo.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Florence
59match

Wins on day trips and culture and sights with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
58match

Wins on nightlife and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Florence in July

32 °Cdaytime high
19 °Cnight-time low
37 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Sao Paulo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
53 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Florence has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Florence's sunshine is measured 71 km from the centre, at Pisa / S. Giusto.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Florence: 1995-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Firenze / Peretola (5.6 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureFlorenceSao Paulo
Official languageItalianPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation50 m760 m
Main airportFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)6 km from centre46 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre104 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorenceSao Paulo
City population360,93011,451,999
People per km²3,5287,519
Museums within 10 km14190
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.