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The Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance, Keystone
KeystoneThe Outback, with the Tenmile Range in the distance
São Paulo Cathedral, Sao Paulo
Sao PauloSão Paulo Cathedral

Photos: Keystone by Rudi Riet, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Sao Paulo by Webysther Nunes, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Keystone 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 Keystone for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • families
  • day trips

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

Choose Sao Paulo for

  • nightlife
  • food and drink
  • live music and the arts

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. Keystone 5, Sao Paulo 42: Sao Paulo leads by 37 points.
Food & drink. Keystone 27, Sao Paulo 84: Sao Paulo leads by 57 points.
Culture & sights. Keystone 7, Sao Paulo 60: Sao Paulo leads by 53 points.
Nightlife. Keystone 12, Sao Paulo 86: Sao Paulo leads by 74 points.
Nature & outdoors. Keystone 93, Sao Paulo 48: Keystone leads by 45 points.
Day trips. Keystone 55, Sao Paulo 47: Keystone leads by 8 points.
Good for families. Keystone 66, Sao Paulo 52: Keystone leads by 14 points.
Getting around. Keystone 50, Sao Paulo 44: Keystone leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Keystone 22, Sao Paulo 70: Sao Paulo leads by 48 points.
Affordability. Keystone 12, Sao Paulo 62: Sao Paulo leads by 50 points.
Live music & performing arts. Keystone 22, Sao Paulo 76: Sao Paulo leads by 54 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Keystone 32, Sao Paulo 25: Keystone leads by 7 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Keystone and Sao Paulo.

Your match

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

Keystone
34match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and families with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
Best match
58match

Wins on nightlife and food and drink with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Keystone in July

21 °Cdaytime high
5 °Cnight-time low
39 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
15 hdaylight a day

Sao Paulo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
53 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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KeystoneSao Paulo

Where the figures come from

Keystone's temperatures are measured 51 km from the centre, at Leadville / Stringtown.

Keystone's station stands 232 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Keystone 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. Keystone: 2006-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Leadville / Stringtown (50.8 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKeystoneSao Paulo
Official language-Portuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-7, UTC-6 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation2,796 m760 m
Main airportDenver International Airport (DEN)116 km from centre231 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre104 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureKeystoneSao Paulo
City population1,36911,451,999
People per km²137,519
Museums within 10 km090
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00

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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. 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 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.