VacationSelector

Sao Paulo or Split?

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.

Split
51
match

Wins on beaches & swimming 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 PauloSplit
Beaches & swimming. Split leads by 73 points.73
Sao PauloSplit
Score073
Swim season months04
Beaches 10 km087
Coast distance51 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Sao Paulo leads by 35 points.35
Sao PauloSplit
Score7338
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,735268
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2715
Museums & heritage. Split leads by 9 points.9
Sao PauloSplit
Score4352
Museums within 10 km8218
Museums within 2 km of centre2616
Share of museums within 2 km %3289
Unesco sites within 50 km04
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 31 points.31
Sao PauloSplit
Score7241
Drinking venues within 4 km1,747379
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre896263
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5169
Nightclubs within 4 km11823
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 13 points.13
Sao PauloSplit
Score5138
Protected land share 50 km %269
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %9562
Park area within 2 km52 hectares30 hectares
Good for families. Sao Paulo leads by 29 points.29
Sao PauloSplit
Score5526
Tourist attractions within 2 km389
Park area within 2 km52 hectares30 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km10
Sights concentration. Sao Paulo leads by 8 points.8
Sao PauloSplit
Score5042
Notable places within 2 km6843
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 1 points.1
Sao PauloSplit
Score8180
Price level global46.148.5
Daily budget€138
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 14 points.14
Sao PauloSplit
Score8369
Monthly daytime high22.8 °C to 29.2 °C10.7 °C to 31 °C
Monthly rainfall26 mm to 297 mm25 mm to 117 mm
Dry months12
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
Split
11
12
15
18
23
28
31
31
25
21
16
12
Sea temperature, °C
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Split
14
13
14
15
18
22
24
25
23
21
19
16
Rainfall, mm
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Split
73
64
59
62
58
49
25
32
82
80
117
99
Daylight, hours per day
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Split
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
Split
5
5
7
7
9
10
12
11
8
7
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). Split: 1991-2020 normals, Split / Marjan (0.9 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSao PauloSplit
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 30 m
€88-160
SPU · 12 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 10 m
€186-201
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 45 m
€169-224
SPU · 12 km
RomeFCO, CIA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 5 m
€294
SPU · 12 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 5 m
€169-225
SPU · 12 km
MunichMUC
12 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 25 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
MadridMAD
10 h 30 m
€739-741
GRU · 21 km
2 h 40 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
9 h 0 m
no fares
SPU · 12 km
ZurichZRH
12 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
1 h 35 m
€247-298
1 stop
SPU · 12 km
BarcelonaBCN
11 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 5 m
€108-177
SPU · 12 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 PauloSplit
Official languagePortugueseCroatian
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCN60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112
Elevation760 m0 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsSplit Saint Jerome Airport (SPU)12 km from centre70 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days14 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloSplit
City population11,451,999160,577
People per km²7,519
Museums within 10 km9011
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km04
Distinct cuisines in the centre5931
Swim season, months above 21 °C4 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.