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Portofino and its bay from the hillside, Portofino
PortofinoPortofino and its bay from the hillside
São Paulo Cathedral, Sao Paulo
Sao PauloSão Paulo Cathedral

Photos: Portofino by Michal Osmenda, CC BY 2.0, cropped; Sao Paulo by Webysther Nunes, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped.

Portofino 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 Portofino for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips
  • beaches

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

Choose Sao Paulo for

  • nightlife
  • live music and the arts
  • prices

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. Portofino 60, Sao Paulo 42: Portofino leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Portofino 36, Sao Paulo 84: Sao Paulo leads by 48 points.
Culture & sights. Portofino 22, Sao Paulo 60: Sao Paulo leads by 38 points.
Nightlife. Portofino 14, Sao Paulo 86: Sao Paulo leads by 72 points.
Nature & outdoors. Portofino 77, Sao Paulo 48: Portofino leads by 29 points.
Day trips. Portofino 76, Sao Paulo 47: Portofino leads by 29 points.
Good for families. Portofino 33, Sao Paulo 52: Sao Paulo leads by 19 points.
Getting around. Portofino 50, Sao Paulo 44: Portofino leads by 6 points.
Shopping & style. Portofino 29, Sao Paulo 70: Sao Paulo leads by 41 points.
Affordability. Portofino 9, Sao Paulo 62: Sao Paulo leads by 53 points.
Live music & performing arts. Portofino 7, Sao Paulo 76: Sao Paulo leads by 69 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Portofino 42, Sao Paulo 25: Portofino leads by 17 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Portofino and Sao Paulo.

Your match

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

Portofino
38match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and day trips with your weighting.

Sao Paulo
Best match
58match

Wins on nightlife and live music and the arts with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

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

Portofino in July

27 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
32 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 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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PortofinoSao Paulo

Where the figures come from

Portofino's temperatures are measured 31 km from the centre, at Genova / Sestri.

Portofino 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.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Portofino: 1991-2020 normals, Genova / Sestri (31 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasurePortofinoSao Paulo
Official languageItalianPortuguese
CurrencyEuro (EUR)Brazilian Real (BRL)
SocketsCFL230 V, 50 HzCN60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC+1, UTC+2 in summerUTC-3
Emergency number112Police 190, ambulance 192, fire 193
Elevation20 m760 m
Main airportGenoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)32 km from centre25 non-stop destinationsSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre104 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year13 days15 days

By the numbers

MeasurePortofinoSao Paulo
City population35511,451,999
People per km²1427,519
Museums within 10 km1490
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km20
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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). 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.

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.