VacationSelector

Sao Paulo or Siena?

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 nightlife and places to eat with your weighting.

Siena
39
match

Wins on 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 PauloSiena
Beaches & swimming. Sao Paulo and Siena are level on 0.
Sao PauloSiena
Score00
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km00
Coast distance51 km64 km
Water distance
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 41 points.41
Sao PauloSiena
Score7332
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,735242
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2711
Museums & heritage. Siena leads by 28 points.28
Sao PauloSiena
Score4371
Museums within 10 km8255
Museums within 2 km of centre2651
Share of museums within 2 km %3293
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 55 points.55
Sao PauloSiena
Score7217
Drinking venues within 4 km1,747142
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre896119
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5184
Nightclubs within 4 km1181
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 32 points.32
Sao PauloSiena
Score5119
Protected land share 50 km %263
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %95100
Park area within 2 km52 hectares29 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 24 points.24
Sao PauloSiena
Score5531
Tourist attractions within 2 km3813
Park area within 2 km52 hectares29 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo and Siena are level on 50.
Sao PauloSiena
Score5050
Notable places within 2 km6869
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 13 points.13
Sao PauloSiena
Score8168
Price level global46.164.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 19 points.19
Sao PauloSiena
Score8364
Monthly daytime high22.8 °C to 29.2 °C8.9 °C to 31.3 °C
Monthly rainfall26 mm to 297 mm49 mm to 136 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
Siena
9
11
15
20
23
28
31
31
26
20
14
10
Rainfall, mm
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Siena
71
79
107
75
99
71
53
49
103
86
136
110
Daylight, hours per day
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Siena
9
11
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
Siena
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). Siena: 2006-2017 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Arezzo (45 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSao PauloSiena
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 40 m
€143-159
FLR · 55 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 5 m
€180-199
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
MadridMAD
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 55 m
€232-255
2 stops
FLR · 55 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
55 m
€136-139
1 stop
FLR · 55 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 35 m
€113-168
FLR · 55 km
MunichMUC
12 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 15 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 30 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
ZurichZRH
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 10 m
no fares
FLR · 55 km
LisbonLIS
10 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 45 m
€267-328
1 stop
FLR · 55 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 PauloSiena
Official languagePortugueseItalian
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCN60 HzCFL230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112
Elevation760 m322 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsFlorence Airport, Peretola (FLR)55 km from centre36 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloSiena
City population11,451,99952,812
People per km²7,519446
Museums within 10 km9029
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre5925

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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. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. 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.