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São Paulo Cathedral, Sao Paulo
Sao PauloSão Paulo Cathedral
The harbour front with the church tower above the houses, Saint-Tropez
Saint-TropezThe harbour front with the church tower above the houses

Photos: Sao Paulo by Webysther Nunes, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Saint-Tropez by AXP Photography, Pexels License.

Sao Paulo or Saint-Tropez?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Sao Paulo for

  • live music and the arts
  • prices
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Sao Paulo’s own page.

Choose Saint-Tropez for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • day trips

What lies behind each score is written up on Saint-Tropez’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Sao Paulo 42, Saint-Tropez 82: Saint-Tropez leads by 40 points.
Food & drink. Sao Paulo 84, Saint-Tropez 48: Sao Paulo leads by 36 points.
Culture & sights. Sao Paulo 60, Saint-Tropez 35: Sao Paulo leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Sao Paulo 86, Saint-Tropez 60: Sao Paulo leads by 26 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sao Paulo 48, Saint-Tropez 72: Saint-Tropez leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Sao Paulo 47, Saint-Tropez 57: Saint-Tropez leads by 10 points.
Good for families. Sao Paulo 52, Saint-Tropez 42: Sao Paulo leads by 10 points.
Getting around. Sao Paulo 44, Saint-Tropez 32: Sao Paulo leads by 12 points.
Shopping & style. Sao Paulo 70, Saint-Tropez 64: Sao Paulo leads by 6 points.
Affordability. Sao Paulo 62, Saint-Tropez 8: Sao Paulo leads by 54 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sao Paulo 76, Saint-Tropez 18: Sao Paulo leads by 58 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sao Paulo 25, Saint-Tropez 35: Saint-Tropez leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sao Paulo and Saint-Tropez.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Sao Paulo
Best match
58match

Wins on live music and the arts and prices with your weighting.

Saint-Tropez
46match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Sao Paulo in July

23 °Cdaytime high
13 °Cnight-time low
53 mmrain in the month
6 hsunshine a day
No seasea
11 hdaylight a day

Saint-Tropez in July

32 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
10 mmrain in the month
11 hsunshine a day
23 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Saint-Tropez has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Saint-Tropez's sunshine is measured 62 km from the centre, at Nice.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre). Saint-Tropez: 1999-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Le Luc (24.2 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureSao PauloSaint-Tropez
Official languagePortugueseFrench
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCN60 HzCE230 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 centre104 non-stop destinationsNice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE)64 km from centre130 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days11 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloSaint-Tropez
City population11,451,9993,582
People per km²7,519320
Museums within 10 km904
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C-3 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. 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.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-02. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.