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Sao Paulo or Sarajevo?

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

Your match

Sao Paulo
✓ Best match
56
match

Wins on places to eat and nightlife with your weighting.

Sarajevo
44
match

Wins on sights concentration and museums & heritage 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.

Sao PauloSarajevo
Beaches & swimming. Sao Paulo and Sarajevo are level on 0.
Sao PauloSarajevo
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance51 km120 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 35 points.35
Sao PauloSarajevo
Score7338
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,735227
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2717
Museums & heritage. Sarajevo leads by 9 points.9
Sao PauloSarajevo
Score4352
Museums within 10 km8238
Museums within 2 km of centre2633
Share of museums within 2 km %3287
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 31 points.31
Sao PauloSarajevo
Score7241
Drinking venues within 4 km1,747416
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre896292
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5170
Nightclubs within 4 km11811
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 31 points.31
Sao PauloSarajevo
Score5120
Protected land share 50 km %262
Landscape blanket share 50 km %151
Land share of disc %95100
Park area within 2 km52 hectares37 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 19 points.19
Sao PauloSarajevo
Score5536
Tourist attractions within 2 km3816
Park area within 2 km52 hectares37 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Sarajevo leads by 11 points.11
Sao PauloSarajevo
Score5061
Notable places within 2 km68131
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sarajevo leads by 7 points.7
Sao PauloSarajevo
Score8188
Price level global46.137.4
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 23 points.23
Sao PauloSarajevo
Score8360
Monthly daytime high22.8 °C to 29.2 °C4.2 °C to 28.3 °C
Monthly rainfall26 mm to 297 mm66 mm to 91 mm
Dry months10
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
Sao Paulo
28
29
28
27
24
23
23
25
25
27
27
28
Sarajevo
4
7
12
17
21
25
28
28
22
17
11
4
Rainfall, mm
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Sarajevo
68
67
67
78
88
88
75
66
88
91
85
89
Daylight, hours per day
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sarajevo
9
10
12
13
15
15
15
14
13
11
10
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5
Sarajevo
3
3
5
5
6
8
8
8
6
5
3
2

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre). Sarajevo: 1991-2020 normals, Sarajevo-Bejelave (2 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSao PauloSarajevo
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
9 h 10 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 15 m
€152-322
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 35 m
€139-181
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 5 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 45 m
€105-169
SJJ · 7 km
MadridMAD
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
2 h 50 m
no fares
DBV · 144 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 50 m
€203-243
1 stop
SJJ · 7 km
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 35 m
€98-226
SJJ · 7 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 20 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
BrusselsBRU, CRL
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
5 h 15 m
no fares
SJJ · 7 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

MeasureSao PauloSarajevo
Official languagePortugueseCroatian, Serbian, Bosnian
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Convertible Mark (BAM)
SocketsCN60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112
Elevation760 m518 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsSarajevo International Airport (SJJ)7 km from centre37 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days8 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloSarajevo
City population11,451,999275,524
People per km²7,5191,947
Museums within 10 km9024
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre5935

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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). 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.