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Florence or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Florence
55
match

Wins on museums & heritage and sights concentration with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
56
match

Wins on nightlife 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.

FlorenceSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Florence and Sao Paulo are level on 0.
FlorenceSao Paulo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance78 km51 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 14 points.14
FlorenceSao Paulo
Score5973
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,2991,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1527
Museums & heritage. Florence leads by 39 points.39
FlorenceSao Paulo
Score8243
Museums within 10 km13282
Museums within 2 km of centre9326
Share of museums within 2 km %7032
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 16 points.16
FlorenceSao Paulo
Score5672
Drinking venues within 4 km8181,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre599896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7351
Nightclubs within 4 km34118
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 13 points.13
FlorenceSao Paulo
Score3851
Protected land share 50 km %926
Landscape blanket share 50 km %215
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km86 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 3 points.3
FlorenceSao Paulo
Score5255
Tourist attractions within 2 km3038
Park area within 2 km86 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Florence leads by 25 points.25
FlorenceSao Paulo
Score7550
Notable places within 2 km29268
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 13 points.13
FlorenceSao Paulo
Score6881
Price level global64.946.1
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 15 points.15
FlorenceSao Paulo
Score6883
Monthly daytime high10.8 °C to 32.7 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall32 mm to 132 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months21
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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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
S
O
N
D
Daytime high, °C
Florence
11
12
16
20
24
29
32
33
27
22
16
11
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Rainfall, mm
Florence
68
58
59
65
63
41
32
35
102
125
132
95
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Florence
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
Florence
4
4
6
6
8
9
11
10
7
5
4
3
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. 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).

WorseBetter

Getting there

Flying fromFlorenceSao Paulo
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 6 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 6 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 6 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MunichMUC
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
ZurichZRH
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 6 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 45 m
€267-328
1 stop
FLR · 6 km
10 h 0 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 2026-08 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

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 centre36 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 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 km14090
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre6259

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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.