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The Three Graces at Pier Head, Liverpool
LiverpoolThe Three Graces at Pier Head
São Paulo Cathedral, Sao Paulo
Sao PauloSão Paulo Cathedral

Photos: Liverpool by Marathon, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped; Sao Paulo by Webysther Nunes, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Liverpool 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 Liverpool for

  • getting around
  • day trips
  • culture and sights

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

Choose Sao Paulo for

  • food and drink
  • beaches
  • nightlife

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. Liverpool 22, Sao Paulo 42: Sao Paulo leads by 20 points.
Food & drink. Liverpool 48, Sao Paulo 84: Sao Paulo leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Liverpool 64, Sao Paulo 60: Liverpool leads by 4 points.
Nightlife. Liverpool 66, Sao Paulo 86: Sao Paulo leads by 20 points.
Nature & outdoors. Liverpool 52, Sao Paulo 48: Liverpool leads by 4 points.
Day trips. Liverpool 64, Sao Paulo 47: Liverpool leads by 17 points.
Good for families. Liverpool 55, Sao Paulo 52: Liverpool leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Liverpool 68, Sao Paulo 44: Liverpool leads by 24 points.
Shopping & style. Liverpool 52, Sao Paulo 70: Sao Paulo leads by 18 points.
Affordability. Liverpool 50, Sao Paulo 62: Sao Paulo leads by 12 points.
Live music & performing arts. Liverpool 66, Sao Paulo 76: Sao Paulo leads by 10 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Liverpool 22, Sao Paulo 25: Sao Paulo leads by 3 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Liverpool and Sao Paulo.

Your match

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

Liverpool
52match

Wins on getting around and day trips with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
Best match
58match

Wins on food and drink and beaches with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Liverpool in July

21 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
67 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
17 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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Where the figures come from

Liverpool's temperatures are measured 47 km from the centre, at Manchester Airport.

Liverpool 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. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureLiverpoolSao Paulo
Official languageEnglishPortuguese
CurrencyPound Sterling (GBP)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsG230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC, UTC+1 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112 or 999Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation70 m760 m
Main airportLiverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL)12 km from centre75 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre104 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year8 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLiverpoolSao Paulo
City population513,44111,451,999
People per km²4,5927,519
Museums within 10 km3190
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone-

Where else could you go?

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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.