VacationSelector

Sao Paulo or Stockholm?

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 value for money with your weighting.

Stockholm
✓ Best match
62
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 PauloStockholm
Beaches & swimming. Stockholm leads by 60 points.60
Sao PauloStockholm
Score060
Swim season months00
Beaches 10 km073
Coast distance51 km0 km
Water distance0 km
Places to eat. Stockholm leads by 3 points.3
Sao PauloStockholm
Score7376
Restaurants within 2 km of centre1,7351,558
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km2736
Museums & heritage. Stockholm leads by 26 points.26
Sao PauloStockholm
Score4369
Museums within 10 km8274
Museums within 2 km of centre2647
Share of museums within 2 km %3264
Unesco sites within 50 km03
Nightlife. Sao Paulo leads by 8 points.8
Sao PauloStockholm
Score7264
Drinking venues within 4 km1,7471,090
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre896689
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5163
Nightclubs within 4 km118106
Nature & day trips. Sao Paulo leads by 10 points.10
Sao PauloStockholm
Score5141
Protected land share 50 km %267
Landscape blanket share 50 km %150
Land share of disc %9577
Park area within 2 km52 hectares104 hectares
Good for families. Stockholm leads by 2 points.2
Sao PauloStockholm
Score5557
Tourist attractions within 2 km3823
Park area within 2 km52 hectares104 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km12
Sights concentration. Stockholm leads by 29 points.29
Sao PauloStockholm
Score5079
Notable places within 2 km68357
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Sao Paulo leads by 24 points.24
Sao PauloStockholm
Score8157
Price level global46.180.3
Daily budget€169
Year-round weather. Sao Paulo leads by 30 points.30
Sao PauloStockholm
Score8353
Monthly daytime high22.8 °C to 29.2 °C1 °C to 23.6 °C
Monthly rainfall26 mm to 297 mm27 mm to 66 mm
Dry months15
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
Stockholm
1
1
5
11
17
21
24
22
17
10
5
3
Sea temperature, °C
Sao Paulo
No coastline within reach
Stockholm
3
2
2
3
7
12
16
17
14
10
7
5
Rainfall, mm
Sao Paulo
297
259
206
89
64
55
53
26
82
128
146
234
Stockholm
37
29
27
29
34
61
60
66
53
51
47
47
Daylight, hours per day
Sao Paulo
13
13
12
12
11
11
11
11
12
13
13
14
Stockholm
7
9
12
15
17
19
18
16
13
10
8
6
Sunshine, hours per day
Sao Paulo
4
6
6
5
5
5
6
6
5
6
5
5
Stockholm
1
2
5
7
9
9
9
8
6
3
1
1

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). Stockholm: 1991-2020 normals, Stockholm Observatoriet (26.4 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromSao PauloStockholm
LondonLHR, LGW, STN, LTN +2
11 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 25 m
€89-139
ARN · 36 km
AmsterdamAMS
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 0 m
€153-185
ARN · 36 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
9 h 40 m
€576-611
GRU · 21 km
8 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 45 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 30 m
€91-121
ARN · 36 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
12 h 10 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 5 m
€152-213
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
MunichMUC
12 h 15 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
2 h 15 m
€202-238
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
IstanbulIST, SAW
13 h 5 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
3 h 15 m
€138-141
ARN · 36 km
Punta CanaPUJ
6 h 50 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
10 h 5 m
no fares
ARN · 36 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
15 h 0 m
no fares
GRU · 21 km
6 h 20 m
€330-429
1 stop
ARN · 36 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
21 h 20 m
€1,139-1567
2 stops
GRU · 21 km
8 h 30 m
no fares
ARN · 36 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 PauloStockholm
Official languagePortugueseSwedish
CurrencyBrazilian Real (BRL)Swedish Krona (SEK)
SocketsCN60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-3UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency numberPolice 190, ambulance 192, fire 193112
Elevation760 m22 m
Main airportSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU)21 km from centre102 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre172 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year15 days16 days

By the numbers

MeasureSao PauloStockholm
City population11,451,999984,748
People per km²7,5195,260
Museums within 10 km90266
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km03
Distinct cuisines in the centre5981
Swim season, months above 21 °CNone

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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. 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.