VacationSelector

Melbourne or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Melbourne
✓ Best match
60
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
56
match

Wins on value for money and nature & day trips with your weighting.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

MelbourneSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Melbourne leads by 55 points.55
MelbourneSao Paulo
Score550
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km190
Coast distance4 km51 km
Water distance4 km
Places to eat. Melbourne leads by 2 points.2
MelbourneSao Paulo
Score7573
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,8881,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2927
Museums & heritage. Melbourne leads by 6 points.6
MelbourneSao Paulo
Score4943
Museums within 10 km4282
Museums within 2 km of centre2426
Share of museums within 2 km %5732
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Melbourne leads by 2 points.2
MelbourneSao Paulo
Score7472
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9211,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,200896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6251
Nightclubs within 4 km124118
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 8 points.8
MelbourneSao Paulo
Score4351
Protected land share 50 km %626
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %8195
Park area within 2 km166 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Melbourne leads by 5 points.5
MelbourneSao Paulo
Score6055
Tourist attractions within 2 km2638
Park area within 2 km166 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Melbourne leads by 7 points.7
MelbourneSao Paulo
Score5750
Notable places within 2 km10368
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 31 points.31
MelbourneSao Paulo
Score5081
Price level global90.246.1
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 7 points.7
MelbourneSao Paulo
Score7683
Monthly daytime high13.6 °C to 26.8 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall45 mm to 69 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
Melbourne
27
27
24
20
17
14
14
15
17
20
22
25
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Sea temperature, °C
Melbourne
20
21
20
18
15
13
12
11
12
14
17
19
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Melbourne
46
48
45
58
50
58
46
52
60
56
69
65
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Melbourne
15
14
12
11
10
10
10
11
12
13
14
15
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Melbourne
9
7
7
6
5
4
4
6
6
7
7
9
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. Melbourne: 1991-2020 normals, Latrobe University / Kingsbury (13.1 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMelbourneSao Paulo
SantiagoSCL
13 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
3 h 45 m
€255-300
GRU · 21 km
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
15 h 40 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
DohaDOH
14 h 45 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
14 h 35 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
17 h 55 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 20 m
€856-961
2 stops
MEL · 19 km
15 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
11 h 25 m
no fares
MEL · 19 km
21 h 20 m
€1,139-1567
2 stops
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

MeasureMelbourneSao Paulo
Official languageEnglishPortuguese
CurrencyAustralian Dollar (AUD)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsI230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+10, UTC+11 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number000Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation31 m760 m
Main airportMelbourne Airport (MEL)19 km from centre66 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

MeasureMelbourneSao Paulo
City population5,350,70511,451,999
People per km²5357,519
Museums within 10 km4290
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8659
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.