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Paris or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Paris
✓ Best match
67
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
56
match

Wins on value for money and year-round weather 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.

ParisSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Paris and Sao Paulo are level on 0.
ParisSao Paulo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km20
Coast distance149 km51 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Paris leads by 17 points.17
ParisSao Paulo
Score9073
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,7321,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3327
Museums & heritage. Paris leads by 33 points.33
ParisSao Paulo
Score7643
Museums within 10 km18582
Museums within 2 km of centre6526
Share of museums within 2 km %3532
Unesco sites within 50 km40
Nightlife. Paris leads by 16 points.16
ParisSao Paulo
Score8872
Drinking venues within 4 km3,7961,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,694896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4551
Nightclubs within 4 km201118
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 3 points.3
ParisSao Paulo
Score4851
Protected land share 50 km %2826
Landscape blanket share 50 km %2615
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km82 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Paris leads by 20 points.20
ParisSao Paulo
Score7555
Tourist attractions within 2 km8938
Park area within 2 km82 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Paris leads by 44 points.44
ParisSao Paulo
Score9450
Notable places within 2 km86568
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 19 points.19
ParisSao Paulo
Score6281
Price level global73.746.1
Daily budget€160
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 17 points.17
ParisSao Paulo
Score6683
Monthly daytime high7.8 °C to 26 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall38 mm to 75 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months11
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
Paris
8
9
13
17
20
24
26
26
22
17
11
8
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Rainfall, mm
Paris
45
38
41
45
75
51
58
54
51
55
54
62
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Paris
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
8
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Paris
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. Paris: 1991-2020 normals, Paris-Montsouris (4.6 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromParisSao Paulo
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
7 h 30 m
€579-648
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
1 h 55 m
€107-141
ORY · 14 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
Rio de JaneiroGIG, SDU, RRJ
11 h 30 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
1 h 5 m
€190-227
GRU · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 5 m
€63-103
CDG · 22 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 20 m
€61-89
CDG · 22 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
13 h 45 m
no fares
CDG · 22 km
2 h 40 m
€281-355
GRU · 21 km
LisbonLIS
2 h 20 m
€138-242
ORY · 14 km
10 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MontrealYUL, YHU, YMX
7 h 10 m
€444-536
CDG · 22 km
10 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
6 h 50 m
€292-389
1 stop
CDG · 22 km
15 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 20 m
no fares
CDG · 22 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 2026-08 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

MeasureParisSao Paulo
Official languageFrenchPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCE230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation27 m760 m
Main airportCharles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG)22 km from centre277 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasureParisSao Paulo
City population2,103,77811,451,999
People per km²19,9607,519
Museums within 10 km25190
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km40
Distinct cuisines in the centre16959

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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). 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. Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. 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.