VacationSelector

Sao Paulo or Seattle?

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 value for money and year-round weather with your weighting.

Seattle
52
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and places to eat with your weighting.

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.

Sao PauloSeattle
Beaches & swimming. Seattle leads by 60 points.60
Sao PauloSeattle
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km0100
Coast distance51 km1 km
Water distance1 km
Places to eat. Seattle leads by 2 points.2
Sao PauloSeattle
Score7375
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,7351,460
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2735
Museums & heritage. Sao Paulo leads by 7 points.7
Sao PauloSeattle
Score4336
Museums within 10 km8228
Museums within 2 km of centre2617
Share of museums within 2 km %3261
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 15 points.15
Sao PauloSeattle
Score7257
Drinking venues within 4 km1,747873
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre896696
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5180
Nightclubs within 4 km11834
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 11 points.11
Sao PauloSeattle
Score5140
Protected land share 50 km %269
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %9580
Park area within 2 km52 hectares63 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 9 points.9
Sao PauloSeattle
Score5546
Tourist attractions within 2 km3817
Park area within 2 km52 hectares63 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Seattle leads by 2 points.2
Sao PauloSeattle
Score5052
Notable places within 2 km6876
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 38 points.38
Sao PauloSeattle
Score8143
Price level global46.1100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 22 points.22
Sao PauloSeattle
Score8361
Monthly daytime high22.8 °C to 29.2 °C7.8 °C to 24.9 °C
Monthly rainfall26 mm to 297 mm15 mm to 160 mm
Dry months13
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
Seattle
8
10
12
15
19
21
25
25
22
15
11
8
Sea temperature, °C
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Seattle
8
8
8
9
10
11
12
12
11
10
9
9
Rainfall, mm
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Seattle
147
96
106
81
48
37
15
25
41
99
160
147
Daylight, hours per day
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Seattle
9
10
12
14
15
16
16
14
13
11
9
9
Sunshine, hours per day
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5
Seattle
No sunshine record

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). Seattle: 1991-2020 normals, Seattle-Tacoma Airport (17.3 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSao PauloSeattle
Los AngelesLAX, BUR, SNA, VNY
12 h 20 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 30 m
€111-203
SEA · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
5 h 15 m
€300-424
SEA · 18 km
WashingtonIAD, DCA
9 h 40 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
5 h 0 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
ChicagoORD, MDW, DPA, PWK +1
10 h 35 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
3 h 55 m
€257-317
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
DallasDFW, DAL, AFW
10 h 20 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
3 h 50 m
€204-286
1 stop
SEA · 18 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
9 h 45 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
BostonBOS, PSM
9 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
5 h 25 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
MiamiMIA, OPF
8 h 25 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
5 h 50 m
no fares
SEA · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
14 h 40 m
€1,006-1077
2 stops
SEA · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
21 h 20 m
€1,139-1567
2 stops
GRU · 21 km
10 h 55 m
no fares
SEA · 18 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 PauloSeattle
Official languagePortuguese
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsCN60 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193911
Elevation760 m40 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsSeattle–Tacoma International Airport (SEA)18 km from centre135 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloSeattle
City population11,451,999737,015
People per km²7,5191,996
Museums within 10 km9027
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre5978
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. 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.