VacationSelector

Interlaken or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Interlaken
23
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Sao Paulo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nightlife and value for money 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.

InterlakenSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Interlaken and Sao Paulo are level on 0.
InterlakenSao Paulo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km120
Coast distance713 km51 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 44 points.44
InterlakenSao Paulo
Score2973
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1181,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1727
Museums & heritage. Sao Paulo leads by 20 points.20
InterlakenSao Paulo
Score2343
Museums within 10 km582
Museums within 2 km of centre226
Share of museums within 2 km %4032
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 68 points.68
InterlakenSao Paulo
Score472
Drinking venues within 4 km421,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre38896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9051
Nightclubs within 4 km3118
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 24 points.24
InterlakenSao Paulo
Score2751
Protected land share 50 km %1926
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km5 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 41 points.41
InterlakenSao Paulo
Score1455
Tourist attractions within 2 km1138
Park area within 2 km5 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km01
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 28 points.28
InterlakenSao Paulo
Score2250
Notable places within 2 km1468
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 46 points.46
InterlakenSao Paulo
Score3581
Price level global110.546.1
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 26 points.26
InterlakenSao Paulo
Score5783
Monthly daytime high2.8 °C to 23.6 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall34 mm to 68 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months31
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
Interlaken
3
5
9
15
17
22
24
23
18
14
7
4
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Rainfall, mm
Interlaken
53
41
37
34
52
48
62
61
38
43
51
68
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Interlaken
9
10
12
14
15
16
15
14
13
11
9
9
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Interlaken
No sunshine record
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. Interlaken: 2005-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Meiringen / Unterbach (19.3 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromInterlakenSao Paulo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 100 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 100 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 100 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 100 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 100 km
15 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€188-233
ZRH · 100 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 100 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
€710-815
1 stop
MXP · 135 km
21 h 20 m
€1,139-1567
2 stops
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

MeasureInterlakenSao Paulo
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshPortuguese
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation571 m760 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)100 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year10 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureInterlakenSao Paulo
City population6,12311,451,999
People per km²1,4247,519
Museums within 10 km390
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2259

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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). 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.