VacationSelector

Liverpool or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Too close to call, 1 point apart

Liverpool
55
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
56
match

Wins on year-round weather 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.

LiverpoolSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Liverpool leads by 60 points.60
LiverpoolSao Paulo
Score600
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km340
Coast distance2 km51 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 13 points.13
LiverpoolSao Paulo
Score6073
Restaurants within 2 km of centre5421,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3227
Museums & heritage. Liverpool and Sao Paulo are level on 43.
LiverpoolSao Paulo
Score4343
Museums within 10 km2382
Museums within 2 km of centre1226
Share of museums within 2 km %5232
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 11 points.11
LiverpoolSao Paulo
Score6172
Drinking venues within 4 km9771,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre651896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6751
Nightclubs within 4 km79118
Nature & day trips. Liverpool leads by 7 points.7
LiverpoolSao Paulo
Score5851
Protected land share 50 km %26
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %6095
Park area within 2 km81 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Liverpool leads by 3 points.3
LiverpoolSao Paulo
Score5855
Tourist attractions within 2 km2538
Park area within 2 km81 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Liverpool and Sao Paulo are level on 50.
LiverpoolSao Paulo
Score5050
Notable places within 2 km6868
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 27 points.27
LiverpoolSao Paulo
Score5481
Price level global84.946.1
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 29 points.29
LiverpoolSao Paulo
Score5483
Monthly daytime high7.2 °C to 20.8 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall51 mm to 95 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months01
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
Liverpool
7
8
10
13
17
19
21
20
18
14
10
8
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Sea temperature, °C
Liverpool
7
6
7
9
11
14
16
17
16
14
11
9
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Liverpool
67
62
51
61
59
63
60
73
71
95
86
84
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Liverpool
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Liverpool
2
2
3
5
6
6
6
6
4
3
2
2
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. Liverpool: 1991-2020 normals, Manchester Airport (47.4 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLiverpoolSao Paulo
MadridMAD
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 20 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
21 h 20 m
€1,139-1567
2 stops
GRU · 21 km
Punta CanaPUJ
8 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 48 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 25 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
2 h 5 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 15 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
no fares
LPL · 12 km
10 h 0 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 2026-09 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

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 centre74 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 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
Distinct cuisines in the centre4959
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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.