VacationSelector

Rome or Sao Paulo?

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

Your match

Rome
✓ Best match
72
match

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

Sao Paulo
56
match

Wins on places to eat and value for money 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.

RomeSao Paulo
Beaches & swimming. Rome leads by 33 points.33
RomeSao Paulo
Score330
Swim season months50
Beaches 10 km30
Coast distance24 km51 km
Water distance24 km
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 13 points.13
RomeSao Paulo
Score6073
Restaurants within 2 km of centre2,2411,735
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km1027
Museums & heritage. Rome leads by 41 points.41
RomeSao Paulo
Score8443
Museums within 10 km16182
Museums within 2 km of centre7926
Share of museums within 2 km %4932
Unesco sites within 50 km70
Nightlife. Rome leads by 2 points.2
RomeSao Paulo
Score7472
Drinking venues within 4 km2,0221,747
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre912896
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %4551
Nightclubs within 4 km85118
Nature & day trips. Rome leads by 19 points.19
RomeSao Paulo
Score7051
Protected land share 50 km %1926
Landscape blanket share 50 km %015
Land share of disc %7895
Park area within 2 km172 hectares52 hectares
Good for families. Rome leads by 31 points.31
RomeSao Paulo
Score8655
Tourist attractions within 2 km12638
Park area within 2 km172 hectares52 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km41
Sights concentration. Rome leads by 49 points.49
RomeSao Paulo
Score9950
Notable places within 2 km1,12568
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 13 points.13
RomeSao Paulo
Score6881
Price level global64.946.1
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 12 points.12
RomeSao Paulo
Score7183
Monthly daytime high12 °C to 31.4 °C22.8 °C to 29.2 °C
Monthly rainfall21 mm to 114 mm26 mm to 297 mm
Dry months31
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
Rome
12
13
16
18
24
28
31
31
27
22
17
13
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Sea temperature, °C
Rome
15
14
14
15
18
22
25
25
24
21
19
16
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Rainfall, mm
Rome
67
69
57
75
62
33
21
38
70
97
114
103
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Daylight, hours per day
Rome
10
11
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sunshine, hours per day
Rome
4
5
6
7
9
10
11
11
8
6
4
4
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. Rome: 1991-2020 normals, Roma / Ciampino (15.1 km from centre). Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromRomeSao Paulo
MadridMAD
2 h 15 m
€98-119
FCO · 23 km
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
2 h 0 m
€91-122
FCO · 23 km
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
8 h 45 m
€446-597
FCO · 23 km
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
2 h 20 m
€76-143
1 stop
FCO · 23 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BarcelonaBCN
1 h 40 m
€44-74
FCO · 23 km
11 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
Rio de JaneiroGIG, SDU, RRJ
11 h 25 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
1 h 5 m
€190-227
GRU · 21 km
Buenos AiresEZE, AEP
13 h 45 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
2 h 40 m
€281-355
GRU · 21 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
1 h 15 m
€84-118
FCO · 23 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
Addis AbabaADD
5 h 55 m
no fares
FCO · 23 km
12 h 20 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
10 h 15 m
no fares
FCO · 23 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

MeasureRomeSao 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
Elevation21 m760 m
Main airportRome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)23 km from centre230 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

MeasureRomeSao Paulo
City population2,748,10911,451,999
People per km²2,1357,519
Museums within 10 km17790
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km70
Distinct cuisines in the centre6559
Swim season, months above 21 °C5 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). 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). 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.