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The Sanctuary of Truth by the sea, Pattaya
PattayaThe Sanctuary of Truth by the sea
São Paulo Cathedral, Sao Paulo
Sao PauloSão Paulo Cathedral

Photos: Pattaya by Matrix, Pexels License; Sao Paulo by Webysther Nunes, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Pattaya or Sao Paulo?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Pattaya for

  • wellness
  • beaches
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Pattaya’s own page.

Choose Sao Paulo for

  • live music and the arts
  • culture and sights
  • shopping

What lies behind each score is written up on Sao Paulo’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Pattaya 66, Sao Paulo 42: Pattaya leads by 24 points.
Food & drink. Pattaya 58, Sao Paulo 84: Sao Paulo leads by 26 points.
Culture & sights. Pattaya 30, Sao Paulo 60: Sao Paulo leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Pattaya 76, Sao Paulo 86: Sao Paulo leads by 10 points.
Nature & outdoors. Pattaya 40, Sao Paulo 48: Sao Paulo leads by 8 points.
Day trips. Pattaya 52, Sao Paulo 47: Pattaya leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Pattaya 55, Sao Paulo 52: Pattaya leads by 3 points.
Getting around. Pattaya 36, Sao Paulo 44: Sao Paulo leads by 8 points.
Shopping & style. Pattaya 42, Sao Paulo 70: Sao Paulo leads by 28 points.
Affordability. Pattaya 84, Sao Paulo 62: Pattaya leads by 22 points.
Live music & performing arts. Pattaya 30, Sao Paulo 76: Sao Paulo leads by 46 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Pattaya 58, Sao Paulo 25: Pattaya leads by 33 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Pattaya and Sao Paulo.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Pattaya
52match

Wins on wellness and beaches with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
Best match
58match

Wins on live music and the arts and culture and sights with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Pattaya in July

32 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
102 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
30 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Sao Paulo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
53 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Pattaya's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Sattahip.

Pattaya has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Pattaya's sunshine is measured 86 km from the centre, at Bangna Agromet / Ban Khlong Samrong.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Pattaya: 1971-2000 (sunshine 1961-1990, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sattahip (31.2 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePattayaSao Paulo
Official languageThaiPortuguese
CurrencyBaht (THB)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsABCF220 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+7UTC-3
Emergency numberPolice 191, ambulance 1669, fire 199Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation35 m760 m
Main airportSuvarnabhumi Airport (BKK)83 km from centre150 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre104 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-15 days

By the numbers

MeasurePattayaSao Paulo
City population119,53211,451,999
People per km²-7,519
Museums within 10 km090
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

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. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). 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. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.