VacationSelector

Monaco or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Monaco
48
match

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

Sao Paulo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on nightlife and places to eat 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.

MonacoSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Monaco leads by 73 points.73
MonacoSao Paulo
Score730
Swim season months40
Beaches 10 km500
Coast distance0 km51 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 34 points.34
MonacoSao Paulo
Score3973
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2691,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1627
Museums & heritage. Sao Paulo leads by 5 points.5
MonacoSao Paulo
Score3843
Museums within 10 km2382
Museums within 2 km of centre826
Share of museums within 2 km %3532
Unesco sites within 50 km20
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 64 points.64
MonacoSao Paulo
Score872
Drinking venues within 4 km691,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre63896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %9151
Nightclubs within 4 km7118
Nature & day trips. Monaco leads by 2 points.2
MonacoSao Paulo
Score5351
Protected land share 50 km %2426
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1715
Land share of disc %5495
Park area within 2 km15 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 20 points.20
MonacoSao Paulo
Score3555
Tourist attractions within 2 km1438
Park area within 2 km15 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Monaco leads by 14 points.14
MonacoSao Paulo
Score6450
Notable places within 2 km15468
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for moneyNo source publishes a price level for Monaco.
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 9 points.9
MonacoSao Paulo
Score7483
Monthly daytime high13.3 °C to 27.9 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall13 mm to 138 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months31
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
Monaco
13
14
15
17
21
25
28
28
25
21
17
14
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Sea temperature, °C
Monaco
14
13
14
15
18
21
24
25
22
20
17
15
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Monaco
74
53
51
69
42
34
13
18
84
124
138
91
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Monaco
9
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Monaco
5
6
7
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
5
5
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. Monaco: 1991-2020 normals, Nice (19.9 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromMonacoSao Paulo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€76-223
NCE · 18 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 10 m
€666-799
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
1 h 50 m
€137-165
NCE · 18 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 30 m
€78-111
NCE · 18 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 10 m
€69-133
NCE · 18 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
1 h 40 m
€155-228
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
AmsterdamAMS
1 h 50 m
€170-248
NCE · 18 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 25 m
€153-221
1 stop
NCE · 18 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
2 h 45 m
€202-329
NCE · 18 km
13 h 5 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 55 m
no fares
NCE · 18 km
10 h 15 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

MeasureMonacoSao Paulo
Official languageFrenchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCEF230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation68 m760 m
Main airportNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)18 km from centre129 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

MeasureMonacoSao Paulo
City population38,85711,451,999
People per km²18,5037,519
Museums within 10 km1490
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Distinct cuisines in the centre2959
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 months

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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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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). 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). Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. 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.