VacationSelector

Los Angeles or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Los Angeles
53
match

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

Sao Paulo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on value for money and good for families 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.

Los AngelesSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Los Angeles leads by 29 points.29
Los AngelesSao Paulo
Score290
Beaches 25 km11
Beaches 10 km00
Swim season months00
Warmest sea temp20.2 °C
Scoring variantbeachScoreWideRing
Declared2026-08-25
Registerseed/editorial-overrides.json
Coast distance51 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 7 points.7
Los AngelesSao Paulo
Score6673
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,3371,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2227
Museums & heritage. Los Angeles leads by 6 points.6
Los AngelesSao Paulo
Score4943
Museums within 10 km6982
Museums within 2 km of centre2326
Share of museums within 2 km %3332
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 18 points.18
Los AngelesSao Paulo
Score5472
Drinking venues within 4 km6601,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre432896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6551
Nightclubs within 4 km64118
Nature & day trips. Los Angeles leads by 11 points.11
Los AngelesSao Paulo
Score6251
Protected land share 50 km %2626
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %8095
Park area within 2 km20 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 22 points.22
Los AngelesSao Paulo
Score3355
Tourist attractions within 2 km1138
Park area within 2 km20 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km21
Sights concentration. Los Angeles leads by 4 points.4
Los AngelesSao Paulo
Score5450
Notable places within 2 km8868
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 38 points.38
Los AngelesSao Paulo
Score4381
Price level global10046.1
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Los Angeles leads by 4 points.4
Los AngelesSao Paulo
Score8783
Monthly daytime high18.6 °C to 24.7 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall0 mm to 76 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months81
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
Los Angeles
19
19
19
20
21
22
24
25
25
24
22
19
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Sea temperature, °C
Los Angeles
15
15
15
15
17
18
20
20
20
19
17
16
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Los Angeles
73
76
44
16
7
2
1
0
3
13
21
57
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Los Angeles
10
11
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
11
10
10
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Los Angeles
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. Los Angeles: 1991-2020 normals, Los Angeles Airport (18.5 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLos AngelesSao Paulo
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
5 h 20 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
4 h 0 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
10 h 35 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
5 h 0 m
€196-293
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
9 h 40 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
3 h 0 m
€188-208
LAX · 19 km
10 h 20 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
HoustonIAH, HOU
3 h 15 m
€173-245
LAX · 19 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
OrlandoMCO, SFB, ORL
4 h 50 m
€205-248
1 stop
LAX · 19 km
8 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
11 h 40 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
SantiagoSCL
11 h 15 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
3 h 45 m
€255-300
GRU · 21 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
12 h 30 m
no fares
LAX · 19 km
21 h 20 m
€1,139-1567
2 stops
GRU · 21 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
16 h 25 m
€964-1015
LAX · 19 km
15 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

MeasureLos AngelesSao Paulo
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-8, UTC-7 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number911Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation106 m760 m
Main airportLos Angeles International Airport (LAX)19 km from centre180 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLos AngelesSao Paulo
City population3,898,74711,451,999
People per km²2,9947,519
Museums within 10 km3890
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4659
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.