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Praia Mole in Florianopolis, Florianopolis
FlorianopolisPraia Mole in Florianopolis
The lighthouse and harbour at Sharm el-Sheikh, Sharm el-Sheikh
Sharm el-SheikhThe lighthouse and harbour at Sharm el-Sheikh

Photos: Florianopolis by Papa Pic, CC0; Sharm el-Sheikh by Tanya Dedyukhina, CC BY 3.0, cropped.

Florianopolis or Sharm el-Sheikh?

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 Florianopolis for

  • food and drink
  • culture and sights
  • day trips

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

Choose Sharm el-Sheikh for

  • prices
  • wellness
  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Sharm el-Sheikh’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. Florianopolis 85, Sharm el-Sheikh 87: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Florianopolis 58, Sharm el-Sheikh 30: Florianopolis leads by 28 points.
Culture & sights. Florianopolis 33, Sharm el-Sheikh 12: Florianopolis leads by 21 points.
Nightlife. Florianopolis 60, Sharm el-Sheikh 42: Florianopolis leads by 18 points.
Nature & outdoors. Florianopolis 78, Sharm el-Sheikh 82: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Florianopolis 50, Sharm el-Sheikh 30: Florianopolis leads by 20 points.
Good for families. Florianopolis 60, Sharm el-Sheikh 62: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 2 points.
Getting around. Florianopolis 28, Sharm el-Sheikh 22: Florianopolis leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Florianopolis 33, Sharm el-Sheikh 25: Florianopolis leads by 8 points.
Affordability. Florianopolis 60, Sharm el-Sheikh 74: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 14 points.
Live music & performing arts. Florianopolis 28, Sharm el-Sheikh 10: Florianopolis leads by 18 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Florianopolis 45, Sharm el-Sheikh 50: Sharm el-Sheikh leads by 5 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Florianopolis and Sharm el-Sheikh.

Your match

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

Florianopolis
Best match
52match

Wins on food and drink and culture and sights with your weighting.

Sharm el-Sheikh
44match

Wins on prices and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Florianopolis in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
91 mmrain in the month
5 hsunshine a day
18 °Csea
11 hdaylight a day

Sharm el-Sheikh in July

38 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
0 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
28 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sharm el-Sheikh has no weather station within reach, so its figures come from a gridded climate model rather than a measured record, and read a broad area rather than the city itself.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Florianopolis: 1991-2020 normals, Florianopolis (1.7 km from centre). Sharm el-Sheikh: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km.

Before you go

MeasureFlorianopolisSharm el-Sheikh
Official languagePortugueseArabic
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Egyptian Pound (EGP)
SocketsCN60 HzCF220 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+2, UTC+3 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193Police 122, ambulance 123, fire 180
Elevation3 m1 m
Main airportHercílio Luz International Airport (FLN)9 km from centre21 non-stop destinationsSharm El Sheikh International Airport (SSH)16 km from centre112 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureFlorianopolisSharm el-Sheikh
City population587,48673,000
People per km²870-
Museums within 10 km111
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C7 months12 months

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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. Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.