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Prague or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Prague
✓ Best match
62
match

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

Sao Paulo
56
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips 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.

PragueSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Prague and Sao Paulo are level on 0.
PragueSao Paulo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km70
Coast distance10,000 km51 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Prague leads by 2 points.2
PragueSao Paulo
Score7573
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,8661,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2927
Museums & heritage. Prague leads by 29 points.29
PragueSao Paulo
Score7243
Museums within 10 km13882
Museums within 2 km of centre10026
Share of museums within 2 km %7232
Unesco sites within 50 km10
Nightlife. Prague leads by 5 points.5
PragueSao Paulo
Score7772
Drinking venues within 4 km2,2481,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,457896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6551
Nightclubs within 4 km123118
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 6 points.6
PragueSao Paulo
Score4551
Protected land share 50 km %1226
Landscape blanket share 50 km %815
Land share of disc %10095
Park area within 2 km183 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Prague leads by 20 points.20
PragueSao Paulo
Score7555
Tourist attractions within 2 km5438
Park area within 2 km183 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km31
Sights concentration. Prague leads by 26 points.26
PragueSao Paulo
Score7650
Notable places within 2 km31068
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 6 points.6
PragueSao Paulo
Score7581
Price level global55.246.1
Daily budget€107
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 22 points.22
PragueSao Paulo
Score6183
Monthly daytime high2.2 °C to 25.3 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall22 mm to 80 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months71
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
Prague
2
5
9
16
20
23
25
25
20
14
7
3
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Rainfall, mm
Prague
26
22
31
27
65
80
76
79
44
36
30
30
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Prague
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
15
13
11
9
8
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Prague
2
3
4
6
7
8
8
7
5
4
2
1
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. Prague: 1991-2020 normals, Praha-Libus (8.1 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromPragueSao Paulo
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
1 h 55 m
€63-104
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
MadridMAD
2 h 45 m
€146-195
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
1 h 40 m
€86-113
PRG · 12 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
Punta CanaPUJ
10 h 0 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
6 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
2 h 15 m
€111-155
PRG · 12 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
RomeFCO, CIA
1 h 45 m
€62-97
PRG · 12 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
5 h 55 m
€276-321
1 stop
PRG · 12 km
15 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 20 m
no fares
PRG · 12 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
1 h 10 m
€126-144
PRG · 12 km
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
9 h 25 m
no fares
PRG · 12 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

MeasurePragueSao Paulo
Official languageCzechPortuguese
CurrencyCzech Koruna (CZK)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
Elevation235 m760 m
Main airportVáclav Havel Airport Prague (PRG)12 km from centre175 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

MeasurePragueSao Paulo
City population1,397,88011,451,999
People per km²2,8177,519
Museums within 10 km8890
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km10
Distinct cuisines in the centre8959

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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). 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.