VacationSelector

Hong Kong or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
56
match

Wins on value for money 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.

Hong KongSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 87 points.87
Hong KongSao Paulo
Score870
Swim season months80
Beaches 10 km650
Coast distance0 km51 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 15 points.15
Hong KongSao Paulo
Score8873
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,3251,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3227
Museums & heritage. Sao Paulo leads by 7 points.7
Hong KongSao Paulo
Score3643
Museums within 10 km5082
Museums within 2 km of centre1726
Share of museums within 2 km %3432
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 1 points.1
Hong KongSao Paulo
Score7172
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9481,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5951
Nightclubs within 4 km37118
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 13 points.13
Hong KongSao Paulo
Score6451
Protected land share 50 km %826
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %2995
Park area within 2 km52 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 3 points.3
Hong KongSao Paulo
Score5855
Tourist attractions within 2 km2738
Park area within 2 km52 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 19 points.19
Hong KongSao Paulo
Score6950
Notable places within 2 km20468
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 18 points.18
Hong KongSao Paulo
Score6381
Price level global7246.1
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 9 points.9
Hong KongSao Paulo
Score7483
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months41
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
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J
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Daytime high, °C
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
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. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongSao Paulo
BeijingPEK, PKX
3 h 0 m
€127-156
HKG · 25 km
21 h 20 m
€1,139-1567
2 stops
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
13 h 0 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
14 h 25 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
JohannesburgJNB, HLA
13 h 15 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
9 h 25 m
€445-559
GRU · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
15 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 35 m
€637
HKG · 25 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
17 h 15 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
9 h 25 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

MeasureHong KongSao Paulo
Official languageStandard ChinesePortuguese
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-3
Emergency number999Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation7 m760 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongSao Paulo
City population7,413,07011,451,999
People per km²7,519
Museums within 10 km3990
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre7659
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 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). 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. 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.