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São Paulo Cathedral, Sao Paulo
Sao PauloSão Paulo Cathedral
Stortorget in Gamla stan, Stockholm
StockholmStortorget in Gamla stan

Photos: Sao Paulo by Webysther Nunes, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped; Stockholm by Jorge Franganillo, CC BY 2.0, cropped.

Sao Paulo or Stockholm?

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

  • prices
  • nightlife
  • food and drink

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

Choose Stockholm for

  • getting around
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Stockholm’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, Stockholm 40: Sao Paulo leads by 2 points.
Food & drink. Sao Paulo 84, Stockholm 64: Sao Paulo leads by 20 points.
Culture & sights. Sao Paulo 60, Stockholm 77: Stockholm leads by 17 points.
Nightlife. Sao Paulo 86, Stockholm 57: Sao Paulo leads by 29 points.
Nature & outdoors. Sao Paulo 48, Stockholm 72: Stockholm leads by 24 points.
Day trips. Sao Paulo 47, Stockholm 68: Stockholm leads by 21 points.
Good for families. Sao Paulo 52, Stockholm 82: Stockholm leads by 30 points.
Getting around. Sao Paulo 44, Stockholm 84: Stockholm leads by 40 points.
Shopping & style. Sao Paulo and Stockholm are level on 70.
Affordability. Sao Paulo 62, Stockholm 30: Sao Paulo leads by 32 points.
Live music & performing arts. Sao Paulo 76, Stockholm 65: Sao Paulo leads by 11 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Sao Paulo 25, Stockholm 56: Stockholm leads by 31 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Sao Paulo and Stockholm.

Your match

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

Sao Paulo
58match

Wins on prices and nightlife with your weighting.

Stockholm
Best match
64match

Wins on getting around and wellness 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

Stockholm in July

23 °Cdaytime high
14 °Cnight-time low
65 mmrain in the month
9 hsunshine a day
16 °Csea
18 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Stockholm 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.

Stockholm's sunshine is measured 26 km from the centre, at Stockholm Observatoriet.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Sao Paulo: 1991-2020 normals, Sao Paulo (5.9 km from centre). Stockholm: 2003-2020 (sunshine 1991-2020, rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Stockholm Bromma Airport (7.1 km from centre).

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 centre104 non-stop destinationsStockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN)36 km from centre174 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
Swim season, months above 21 °C-None

Where else could you go?

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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. 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.

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 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.