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Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West
São Paulo Cathedral, Sao Paulo
Sao PauloSão Paulo Cathedral

Photos: Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License; Sao Paulo by Webysther Nunes, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Key West 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 Key West for

  • beaches
  • getting around
  • wellness

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

Choose Sao Paulo for

  • prices
  • shopping
  • food and drink

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. Key West 60, Sao Paulo 42: Key West leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Key West 45, Sao Paulo 84: Sao Paulo leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Key West 40, Sao Paulo 60: Sao Paulo leads by 20 points.
Nightlife. Key West 62, Sao Paulo 86: Sao Paulo leads by 24 points.
Nature & outdoors. Key West 62, Sao Paulo 48: Key West leads by 14 points.
Day trips. Key West 28, Sao Paulo 47: Sao Paulo leads by 19 points.
Good for families. Key West 40, Sao Paulo 52: Sao Paulo leads by 12 points.
Getting around. Key West 62, Sao Paulo 44: Key West leads by 18 points.
Shopping & style. Key West 30, Sao Paulo 70: Sao Paulo leads by 40 points.
Affordability. Key West 15, Sao Paulo 62: Sao Paulo leads by 47 points.
Live music & performing arts. Key West 38, Sao Paulo 76: Sao Paulo leads by 38 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Key West 40, Sao Paulo 25: Key West leads by 15 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Key West and Sao Paulo.

Your match

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

Key West
44match

Wins on beaches and getting around with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
Best match
58match

Wins on prices and shopping with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Sao Paulo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
53 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Key WestSao Paulo

Where the figures come from

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKey WestSao Paulo
Official language-Portuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation4 m760 m
Main airportKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre104 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureKey WestSao Paulo
City population26,44411,451,999
People per km²1,4077,519
Museums within 10 km790
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. 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.