VacationSelector

Rio de Janeiro or York?

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

Your match

Rio de Janeiro
✓ Best match
69
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and nature & day trips with your weighting.

York
41
match

Has no clear advantage with the weighting you have chosen.

What matters to you?

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders. The match scores above update as you do.

Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Rio de JaneiroYork
Beaches & swimming. Rio de Janeiro leads by 100 points.100
Rio de JaneiroYork
Score1000
Swim season months120
Beaches 10 km612
Coast distance1 km50 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Rio de Janeiro and York are level on 54.
Rio de JaneiroYork
Score5454
Restaurants within 2 km of centre804361
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1631
Museums & heritage. Rio de Janeiro leads by 23 points.23
Rio de JaneiroYork
Score6946
Museums within 10 km11018
Museums within 2 km of centre5116
Share of museums within 2 km %4689
Unesco sites within 50 km32
Nightlife. Rio de Janeiro leads by 14 points.14
Rio de JaneiroYork
Score5743
Drinking venues within 4 km818450
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre509353
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %6278
Nightclubs within 4 km5014
Nature & day trips. Rio de Janeiro leads by 29 points.29
Rio de JaneiroYork
Score6233
Protected land share 50 km %2117
Landscape blanket share 50 km %1716
Land share of disc %5795
Park area within 2 km113 hectares42 hectares
Good for families. Rio de Janeiro leads by 16 points.16
Rio de JaneiroYork
Score5943
Tourist attractions within 2 km3013
Park area within 2 km113 hectares42 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km13
Sights concentration. Rio de Janeiro leads by 17 points.17
Rio de JaneiroYork
Score5639
Notable places within 2 km9837
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Rio de Janeiro leads by 27 points.27
Rio de JaneiroYork
Score8154
Price level global46.184.9
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Rio de Janeiro leads by 29 points.29
Rio de JaneiroYork
Score8556
Monthly daytime high24 °C to 28.4 °C6.7 °C to 20.9 °C
Monthly rainfall42 mm to 232 mm39 mm to 66 mm
Dry months01
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
Rio de Janeiro
28
28
28
27
25
24
24
25
25
26
26
27
York
7
8
10
13
16
19
21
20
18
14
10
7
Sea temperature, °C
Rio de Janeiro
25
25
25
25
24
23
22
21
21
22
23
24
York
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Rio de Janeiro
208
151
173
101
71
49
45
42
69
108
220
232
York
53
44
39
48
43
61
56
65
58
66
62
60
Daylight, hours per day
Rio de Janeiro
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
York
8
10
12
14
16
17
17
15
13
11
9
8
Sunshine, hours per day
Rio de Janeiro
No sunshine record
York
2
3
4
5
6
5
6
5
4
3
2
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Rio de Janeiro: 2001-2020 normals, NASA POWER reanalysis grid, no weather station within 90 km. York: 1991-2020 normals, Leeming (47.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRio de JaneiroYork
TorontoYYZ, YHM, YTZ
10 h 25 m
no fares
GIG · 12 km
7 h 10 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 45 m
€609-699
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
7 h 0 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 30 m
€957-1014
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
AmsterdamAMS
11 h 55 m
€900-974
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 25 m
€897-908
GIG · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
LBA · 39 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 55 m
€915-1205
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
1 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
14 h 40 m
€1,154-1306
GIG · 12 km
7 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
MadridMAD
10 h 15 m
€910-925
1 stop
GIG · 12 km
2 h 20 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 35 m
€996-1109
2 stops
GIG · 12 km
55 m
no fares
MAN · 104 km
LisbonLIS
9 h 45 m
€821-922
GIG · 12 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
MAN · 104 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

MeasureRio de JaneiroYork
Official languagePortugueseEnglish
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Pound Sterling (GBP)
SocketsCN60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC, UTC+1 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112 or 999
Elevation31 m25 m
Main airportRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG)12 km from centre59 non-stop destinationsLeeds Bradford Airport (LBA)39 km from centre73 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year14 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureRio de JaneiroYork
City population6,211,223208,400
People per km²4,930766
Museums within 10 km7024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km32
Distinct cuisines in the centre2754
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 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. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Temperature and rainfall for destinations with no weather station are from the NASA POWER 2001-2020 climatology, derived from MERRA-2. 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). 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.