VacationSelector

Sao Paulo or Singapore?

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

Your match

Sao Paulo
56
match

Wins on year-round weather and nature & day trips with your weighting.

Singapore
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and sights concentration 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 PauloSingapore
Beaches & swimming. Singapore leads by 100 points.100
Sao PauloSingapore
Score0100
Swim season months012
Beaches 10 km042
Coast distance51 km2 km
Water distance2 km
Places to eat. Singapore leads by 14 points.14
Sao PauloSingapore
Score7387
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,7354,115
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2731
Museums & heritage. Singapore leads by 7 points.7
Sao PauloSingapore
Score4350
Museums within 10 km8257
Museums within 2 km of centre2626
Share of museums within 2 km %3246
Unesco sites within 50 km01
Nightlife. Singapore leads by 2 points.2
Sao PauloSingapore
Score7274
Drinking venues within 4 km1,7471,973
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre8961,393
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5171
Nightclubs within 4 km11877
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 17 points.17
Sao PauloSingapore
Score5134
Protected land share 50 km %261
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %9553
Park area within 2 km52 hectares156 hectares
Good for families. Singapore leads by 13 points.13
Sao PauloSingapore
Score5568
Tourist attractions within 2 km3828
Park area within 2 km52 hectares156 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km15
Sights concentration. Singapore leads by 16 points.16
Sao PauloSingapore
Score5066
Notable places within 2 km68172
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 11 points.11
Sao PauloSingapore
Score8170
Price level global46.162
Daily budget
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 21 points.21
Sao PauloSingapore
Score8362
Monthly daytime high22.8 °C to 29.2 °C30.6 °C to 32.4 °C
Monthly rainfall26 mm to 297 mm109 mm to 329 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
Singapore
31
31
32
32
32
32
31
31
32
32
31
31
Sea temperature, °C
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Singapore
28
28
29
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
29
29
Rainfall, mm
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Singapore
227
109
151
165
163
139
145
149
124
167
253
329
Daylight, hours per day
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Singapore
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
12
Sunshine, hours per day
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5
Singapore
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
5
5
4
4

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). Singapore: 1991-2020 normals, Singapore / Changi Airport (17 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSao PauloSingapore
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
18 h 45 m
€835
SIN · 17 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
21 h 20 m
€1,139-1567
2 stops
GRU · 21 km
5 h 55 m
€242-270
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
13 h 30 m
€463-619
1 stop
SIN · 17 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
13 h 15 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
ZurichZRH
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
12 h 45 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
MunichMUC
12 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
12 h 30 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
13 h 0 m
no fares
SIN · 17 km
JohannesburgJNB, HLA
9 h 25 m
€445-559
GRU · 21 km
10 h 50 m
no fares
SIN · 17 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 PauloSingapore
Official languagePortugueseEnglish, Tamil, Malay, Standard Chinese
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Singapore Dollar (SGD)
SocketsCN60 HzG230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightLeft
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+8
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193Police 999, ambulance 995, fire 995
Elevation760 m21 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsSingapore Changi Airport (SIN)17 km from centre165 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloSingapore
City population11,451,9995,866,139
People per km²7,5198,158
Museums within 10 km9040
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km01
Distinct cuisines in the centre59107
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). 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. Ground elevations sampled from the Mapzen terrain tiles via OpenTopoData, merging SRTM, ASTER, NED, EU-DEM and national sources. 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.