VacationSelector

Sao Paulo or Sorrento?

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.

Sorrento
37
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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 PauloSorrento
Beaches & swimming. Sorrento leads by 77 points.77
Sao PauloSorrento
Score077
Swim season months05
Beaches 10 km078
Coast distance51 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 54 points.54
Sao PauloSorrento
Score7319
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,735249
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km275
Museums & heritage. Sao Paulo leads by 6 points.6
Sao PauloSorrento
Score4337
Museums within 10 km827
Museums within 2 km of centre264
Share of museums within 2 km %3257
Unesco sites within 50 km05
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 50 points.50
Sao PauloSorrento
Score7222
Drinking venues within 4 km1,747179
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre896131
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5173
Nightclubs within 4 km1182
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 28 points.28
Sao PauloSorrento
Score5123
Protected land share 50 km %267
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %9542
Park area within 2 km52 hectares4 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 50 points.50
Sao PauloSorrento
Score555
Tourist attractions within 2 km382
Park area within 2 km52 hectares4 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km11
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 40 points.40
Sao PauloSorrento
Score5010
Notable places within 2 km687
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 13 points.13
Sao PauloSorrento
Score8168
Price level global46.164.9
Daily budget€155
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 10 points.10
Sao PauloSorrento
Score8373
Monthly daytime high22.8 °C to 29.2 °C13.1 °C to 31.4 °C
Monthly rainfall26 mm to 297 mm17 mm to 159 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
Sorrento
13
14
16
19
24
28
31
31
28
23
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Sorrento
15
14
14
16
19
23
25
26
24
22
19
17
Rainfall, mm
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Sorrento
89
69
82
73
54
29
17
18
78
92
159
108
Daylight, hours per day
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Sorrento
10
11
12
13
14
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
Sorrento
4
5
6
7
8
9
11
10
8
6
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). Sorrento: 1991-2020 normals, Grazzanise (53.6 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSao PauloSorrento
MilanMXP, BGY, LIN
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 30 m
€35-109
NAP · 30 km
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 35 m
€90-167
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 10 m
€108-170
NAP · 30 km
MadridMAD
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
2 h 25 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 50 m
€103-165
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 5 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 5 m
€167-197
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
MunichMUC
12 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 40 m
€157-224
1 stop
NAP · 30 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
55 m
no fares
NAP · 30 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 25 m
€163-210
1 stop
NAP · 30 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 PauloSorrento
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 m50 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsNaples International Airport (NAP)30 km from centre131 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloSorrento
City population11,451,99915,407
People per km²7,5191,541
Museums within 10 km905
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km05
Distinct cuisines in the centre5911
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. 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. 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.