VacationSelector

Lucerne or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Lucerne
33
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

Sao Paulo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on value for money and nightlife 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.

LucerneSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Lucerne and Sao Paulo are level on 0.
LucerneSao Paulo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km160
Coast distance669 km51 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 26 points.26
LucerneSao Paulo
Score4773
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2691,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2527
Museums & heritage. Sao Paulo leads by 3 points.3
LucerneSao Paulo
Score4043
Museums within 10 km2382
Museums within 2 km of centre1326
Share of museums within 2 km %5732
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 44 points.44
LucerneSao Paulo
Score2872
Drinking venues within 4 km2021,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre151896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %7551
Nightclubs within 4 km11118
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 26 points.26
LucerneSao Paulo
Score2551
Protected land share 50 km %726
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km29 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 17 points.17
LucerneSao Paulo
Score3855
Tourist attractions within 2 km1538
Park area within 2 km29 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 15 points.15
LucerneSao Paulo
Score3550
Notable places within 2 km2968
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 46 points.46
LucerneSao Paulo
Score3581
Price level global110.546.1
Daily budget€248
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 30 points.30
LucerneSao Paulo
Score5383
Monthly daytime high3.6 °C to 24.3 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall60 mm to 128 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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F
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J
A
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Daytime high, °C
Lucerne
4
5
10
15
19
22
24
24
19
14
8
4
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Rainfall, mm
Lucerne
62
60
71
80
126
128
126
119
87
85
76
84
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Lucerne
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Lucerne
2
3
5
6
6
7
7
7
5
3
2
1
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. Lucerne: 1991-2020 normals, Zurich Town / Ville. (41.7 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromLucerneSao Paulo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 35 m
€110-163
ZRH · 49 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
2 h 5 m
€158-220
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 5 m
€606-782
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€110-133
ZRH · 49 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 25 m
€234-276
ZRH · 49 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€114-151
ZRH · 49 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 15 m
€232-366
1 stop
ZRH · 49 km
15 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 40 m
€188-233
ZRH · 49 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 0 m
no fares
ZRH · 49 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 15 m
€163-196
ZRH · 49 km
11 h 45 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 2026-08 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

MeasureLucerneSao Paulo
Official languageFrench, German, Italian, RomanshPortuguese
CurrencySwiss Franc (CHF)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCJ230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation436 m760 m
Main airportZürich Airport (ZRH)49 km from centre181 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year12 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureLucerneSao Paulo
City population86,23411,451,999
People per km²2,9637,519
Museums within 10 km1490
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre4659

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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. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.